“Right now, Minetest, a free software game engine which is also the best free alternative to the well known Minecraft, is hosted on GitHub, a proprietary platform owned by a huge unethical company.” (Zughy)
GitHub is owned by the owner of the minetest rival, minecraft ^^
Would love to see it. Been wanting to contribute to Minetest more than once, but that enthusiasm always evaporates when I remember that I’d need to create and keep a GitHub account for it.
Gigachad lemmy user without a GH account, mad respect
LMAO, thanks.
A few years ago, a colleague of mine was surprised, I didn’t have a GitHub account and told me I should create one, because GitHub is “the Facebook for developers”.
Which is the most insulting description of GitHub I’ve ever heard. Somehow, he didn’t convince me. 🙃
Here’s another one. Moved to GitLab when Microsoft bought GitHub.
I asked this in the forums a few years ago, back then the most vocal core devs were against it. But
git.minetest.netwould be such an awesome thing.They could run an own GitLab instance there and move main development off of the Microsoft service. For backwards compatibility they could mirror the repost to MS GitLab like they do with GitLab.com right now.
In the long term even the CDB could be hosted there.
But two chances to cleanly do the move were missed. First was the release of so-called “Minetest 5.0”, the first release after the 0.x era and the second chance was when lots of other FOSS projects left GitHub when Microsoft bought it.
