Here is the message where he found out what happened:

I didn’t receive any information about it but when creating a support ticket I was told my account has been flagged and I had to do some extra verification. I’ve created a support ticket now and will keep you posted. I’ll believe it’s nothing major though, I use 2FA everywhere, the last commit on all repos is what I expect, and all sessions and usages look fine

Absolutely fuck Github and Microslop, they can just vanish your projects without notice whenever they want with barely any justification for it, and then take their sweet time to fix it too.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    8 hours ago

    What is it going to take to push FLOSS software out of GitHub? Everyone here can move their projects literally anywhere else today. I did it for my own (roughly 10 projects) five years ago and it only took about an hour:

    1. Create an account with Codeberg, GitLab, or whatever you like.
    2. Use their built-in tools to copy your repo over to your new account. In GitLab’s case, this will even migrate over some of the additional features, like issues.
    3. Update the places where you publish the project: PyPI, npm, whatever, with the new project home URL.
    4. Archive the old project on GitHub, with a pointing link to the new project home.
    5. (Optional) announce the above in any of the social spaces where people care about your project.
    • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden
      10·
      6 hours ago

      The problem is that everyone already had a GitHub account and creating an account on 10 different forges just for reporting issues is annoying. GitHub was comfortable.

      Forgejo is actively working on federation for this and I think it’s super important. Create account somewhere, send issues, comments and PRs to projects on other instances.

      • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        That’s a worthy goal, but the problem isn’t so insurmountable that we have to wait for some theoretical new feature to be available and adopted. There are three dominant players out there, one of which has demonstrated a willingness to screw everyone and the “it’s not perfect yet” excuse is getting pretty thin.

        Switch to Codeberg today and there’s a good chance that this federated login will be supported there when/if it’s ever available. GitLab could do it too, and moving there will give you a bunch of nice things you don’t even get in GitHub let alone Codeberg.

        But it’s long passed time to move. Microsoft has stolen our code to feed into their slop machine and enshittified the platform. Sticking around because a perfect alternative isn’t available only serves to harden the network effect that keeps GitHub dominant.

        • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Agree with Codeberg. I wouldn’t recommend Gitlab, nothing stopping them from becoming the next GitHub if they get enough people.

          • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            3 hours ago

            It’s true. They’re for-profit, so the motivations are still there. Fragmentation helps a lot though. If a third of us move to one, and another third to the other, that would cripple any party’s ability to enshittify.