[WhyNotHugo]

> Code bases are on GitHub

Not a very solid way to move away from American big tech :/

[cortesoft]

If the move away from American big tech is for practical reasons rather than political, there is no harm in using GitHub. The worry with using an American firm is that the US government could force the company to handover confidential information, or shut down access.

For open source code, there is no risk of confidential information being given to the US government (since there is no confidential information), and moving to another forge would be pretty simple if necessary.

[muyuu]

tbh I was always of the mind that Github offers nothing over some slight convenience in hosting and some exposure, in exchange for the loss of control

Github had enough mindshare that for a small dev operation it was a form of social networking on top of actual code revision control, and one could get the occasional PR worth looking at; this consideration has essentially gone away as the amount of unreviewed vibecoded slop has skyrocketed

I know I'm biased but I'd run my own git server

but you're right that security is of no object here if you're code is OSS in the first place

[bilekas]

The other commenter nailed it down. But I want to add that removing dependance on US companies is not some kind of spiteful act. It's purely down to both privacy and reliability.

Having private companies in the US becoming more involved with politics is fine for the US apperantly, but the EU just don't want to be involved.

[jepj57]

Open standards, private software is the way to go. It makes sense for any entity to control their own destiny.

[nxm]

As if EU doesn’t involve itself with software, policy and censorship which has its own inherent risks

[bee_rider]

Maybe they have local copies as well, and just figured they might as well take GitHub’s free bandwidth and social networking features.

[dkga]

Next year: LeGit !

[sylvinus]

Exactly, we do have private forges we build and deploy from.

[ninalanyon]

Surely everyone who uses GitHub has a local copy, that's pretty much how git works.

[alpha_squared]

This is probably just the first big step (communications) in a series of big steps.

[thrance]

I remember seeing some projects by the French government on their self-hosted Gitlab. Maybe these are just public mirrors of their private repos?

[amelius]

React is also from US, no?

[OJFord]

What problem is hypothetically encountered by a US-originated OSS frontend framework dependency?