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Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?
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I have a few projects on Github. I am receiving a lot of spam PRs and requests from vibe coders and bots. Most of them to prop up their profiles.
I have a few projects on Github. I am receiving a lot of spam PRs and requests from vibe coders and bots. Most of them to prop up their profiles. The stars are obviously exaggerated too.
What other platforms are you using for your projects?
I think one important factor would be still being able to interact with a community of people who care for software and would like to put genuine thoughts. Whether it be for submitting bug reports, issues, PRs or security reports. Of course other platforms are not diverse as GitHub, it would be nice to see which other platforms are attracting such people. This in turn has a higher chance of interacting with such people.
sourcehut.org would be my choice.
Drew is pretty adamant about stuff and his morales.
You will dislike somethings (UI and some policies) but will like majority of the things (tech like CI/CD etc).
It's OSS and can be self-hosted as well.
But I think drew fighting LLM scrappers on our behalf is good for us.
It's also cheap and should progressively improve going forward.
It's my long term plan. I am progressively moving my projects (private and in small numbers, but still...) from gitlab to sourcehut over this year or next.
Related question, is there a web-based self-hosted git replacement that's _light-weight_ (i.e. resilient to scraping)? Should have things like file view, file browser, etc but is not taxing on the server.
I'm not familiar with git, but can you post a read-only version publicly so others can still access all the commit history but not be subjected to pull requests?