99% of wikis should have a static mode to drop to when this happens. please, i beg you, let me still read it

Not to be unkind, but GitHub dying as the home of open source is a good thing for foss. We grew too complacent and dependant. Yeah it costs money and time to run our own spaces. Better than giving up.

RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/116487769966981099

Open source continues to struggle because above all else it has persisted in the idea of corporate dependence. We moved to Sourceforge and it was a mess. We moved to Github which gave us even less individual control and it also became a mess. In between was also Launchpad but tbh that never really took off bc of bzr.

The alternative isn’t self-hosting though. Large projects provide code hosting for anything vaguely relevant. Umbrella hosting and cooperating on these services makes things more sustainable and makes anything less likely to disappear.

Over a decade ago I used to lend my time to various places to assist with hosting or just initial set up, and then everything started disappearing, wikis got swallowed by fandom and ign, every major project moved to github, and everyone else pretended you need a k8s cluster to run anything. We could just bring that back. We even learned a lot of important lessons from the likes of Freenode about how to avoid hostile takeovers.

Does anyone offer fuck-AI-scrapers hosting yet? I mean, I can run this all myself, but I am not quite sure I want to right now.