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title: Please Stop Using Github
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tags:
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- github
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- ice
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- activism
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I mentioned on [twitter] that I've stopped using Github because of their continued support of ICE.
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To be clear, it's not just that ICE uses Github. It's that they think [supporting ICE is okay] because
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ICE is responsible for things other than putting children in cages. Their statement misses the point
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in so many ways, I have very little hope they'll ever see past their own justifications on this.
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So, no more Github. This has some very real impact for me - I've used github for a long time, I've used
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its social media features and been a paid subscriber for years. Dropping github is annoying. But we
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**must** stop supporting organizations that are in turn supporting fascism. I encourage anyone reading
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this to follow my lead and give up on github.
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Good alternatives exist: [Gitlab] has a free tier very similar to Github's if you want a drop-in hosted replacement.
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[gitea] is what I've opted for, because at this point I just feel *exhausted* by large, hosted solutions; it's a lovely,
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community-driven open source project. It has a docker image that is very easy to set up, and it supports U2F/webauthn.
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And of course, you can also just keep bare git repositories on a server and push to them with SSH, although that loses
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all of the convenience and discoverability of a git solution with a web interface.
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[twitter]: https://twitter.com/annabunches/status/1202361836852654082
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[supporting ICE is okay]: https://github.blog/2019-10-09-github-and-us-government-developers/
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[gitlab]: https://about.gitlab.com/
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[gitea]: https://gitea.io/en-us/
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