As you can easily notice, today many open source projects are using some services, that are… sus.
For example, Github is the most popular place to store your project code and we all know, who owns it. And not to forget that sketchy AI training on every line of your code. Don’t we have alternatives? Oh, yes we have. Gitlab, Codeberg, Notabug, etc. You can even host your own Gitea or Forgejo instance if you want.
Also, Crowdin is very popular in terms of software (and docs) translation. Even Privacy Guides and The New Oil use Crowdin, even though we have FLOSS Weblate, that you can easily self-host or use public instances.
So, my question is: if you are building a FLOSS / privacy related project, why using proprietary and privacy invasive tools?
Yes here we are. With 4 or 5 main instances, little content, and tons of reposts on the front page as each instances sub reposts.
It’s a mess, very few active users exist, the front page is dominated by news bots, and reddit is as popular as ever.
This place is an extremely barren and low bar.
@IsThisAnAI Yeah would you like to help make it less barren? Complaining about mess won’t make it less of a mess, it could only make the biggest monopoly even bigger, so that there won’t be any alternatives.