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🤔 Question for the #devs :

Why GitHub and not GitLab?

I’ve noticed that multiple times a day there are GitHub links shared here

Is it not preferable to use an open source version of GitHub?

With all of the discourse around decentralization and whatnot I’m genuinely surprised that that is the go-to hosting service for folks here

But also, I am clearly not a dev or an engineer of any kind so maybe I am over simplifying the reason why GitLab is not used

Would it make sense for #Nostriches to build our own version?

Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts

#github #gitlab #nostr #opensource #decentralized #engineers #developers

https://gitlab.com

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DAG MAN 2y ago

I wanna know too

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Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

Gitlab limit for free plans is only a few users. OK for small internal projects, not good for community

Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

I may be wrong on this for GitLab. Possible that user limit is for private repos only. I need to look into this further for open source

One thing I really dislike about github is there limited account permissions. You cant grant access tokens that limit access to specific repositories. Because of this multiple accounts are needed when working with different clients and GitHub has arbitrary reasons for terminating or locking out accounts

ladidai 🇳🇬🗽 2y ago

Hey, thank you for this information! That last part that you touched upon is more reason for #Nostr to distance itself from GitHub. Arbitrary account issues could be detrimental to the builders here. I think it’s fine in the short term, but if we’re really building for a fully decentralized, open source future, reliance on centralized platforms is misaligned.

Crispy 2y ago

I heard someone was writing a nostr version of GitHub.

Probably the same reason so many were on twitter for this long. Platform stickiness.

ladidai 🇳🇬🗽 2y ago

Gotcha, that makes sense!

Diego Valley 2y ago

I heard @jack on a podcast that there needs to be an open source code depository. Eg btc core, nostr shouldn’t be on GitHub

ladidai 🇳🇬🗽 2y ago

You’re my hero #[1] #answeredprayer