The fact that it's not intended to be a free service (only free during alpha [1]) is a non-starter. Asking people to change their workflow is bad enough, asking them to stop getting it for free is a joke.
If you don't pay, someone else will. GitHub is funded by private investors demanding a return, which incentivizes behavior like repurposing your code to facilitate mass license infringement. SourceHut is entirely funded by its users and is therefore only accountable to their needs.
SourceHut's fees are very cheap ($2/mo) and users who cannot pay for any reason are offered free service.
If you will only use services that you don't need to pay for, that's your choice, but you should respect the choices of others who consider these incentives and their outcomes more important.
remram|3 years ago
[1]: https://sourcehut.org/pricing/
ddevault|3 years ago
SourceHut's fees are very cheap ($2/mo) and users who cannot pay for any reason are offered free service.
If you will only use services that you don't need to pay for, that's your choice, but you should respect the choices of others who consider these incentives and their outcomes more important.