• iopq@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    If typing in your email to sign up is too much effort, then free software is truly doomed

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      9 months ago

      Maintaining another account is maintaining another account.

      It absolutely is meaningful friction, and it absolutely is a perfectly valid reason not to engage.

    • twei@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      That’s not the point. The biggest project that currently is on codeberg is forgejo with about 1000 stars. The biggest project that currently is on github is freeCodeCamp with 383000 stars.
      You see the difference? If a dev only pushes to codeberg, they have basically no way of being discovered, because there is no one to discover them.

      I think I should add that I am a supporting member of Codeberg e.V.

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        9 months ago

        I dont think that the stars comparison is very fair. One is a complex version control and product infrastructure system that intermediate users or experts in the domain get familiar with. The other is a coding tutorial series that literally everyone and their dog forks or saves when they start out on learning programming - every college student, every high schooler that has a CS 100, etc. etc.

        Also, is there any point to being discovered by the legion of new users and learners on github? What about discovery by people that actually have the inclination and expertise, and have shown the willingness to commit to a smaller user-base because it’s FOSS?

        Not trying to disprove or devalue your perspective, just trying to point out that the masses might be wrong to choose the popular option to help get “discovered”.