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2d ago

European alternatives to GitHub & VS Studio Marketplace

On the database website, I didn't see any alternatives to GitHub, or even a category for that I could submit to.

"Software development, collaboration & hosting"?

Here are some:

Codeberg (Germany, non-profit)
Sourcehut (Netherlands)
Launchpad (UK, it's not just for Ubuntu stuff)
Radicle (Switzerland, peer-to-peer: no central host)
Free Software Foundation Europe, Gitea instance (non-profit)

Alternative to... lots of stuff: GitHub, Google, Gmail, Google Docs, Discord, Skype, Reddit, Twitter etc

Disroot (Netherlands, non-profit)

Alternative to Microsoft VS Studio Marketplace (extensions for VS Studio IDE)

Open VSX (Belgium, non-profit)

Open source alternative to Microsoft VS Studio IDE, with Microsoft telemetry removed

VS Codium

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Isn't gitlab European? I think it's even better than github

Software development, collaboration & hosting
+1 for codeberg. There's forgejo for self-hosting too (codeberg uses this, btw)
Disroot (Netherlands, non-profit)
I love disroot but quick note: a lot of their services, like cloud, mail etc are unencrypted. I also advise not putting all your eggs in one basket.
VS Codium
I'd like to chime in here. There's not a lot of actually european editors, most are just FOSS globally.
But there's https://sublimetext.com/ in australia, which is NOT open source! But it exists.
There's also [more advanced] https://neovim.io/ and https://helix-editor.com/ which are ran in the CLI. I love both of these personally.
But VSCodium is a fine choice. I use it on windows since i don't like TUI apps there.
- It's not FOSS, but the Jetbrains suite has a bunch of IDEs and now an editor and it's I think either a Czech or Polish company. Of course going from electron to Java isn't gonna make things any less bloated. But the specialized IDEs tend to provide slightly more tooling then just vs code and an LSP.
  
  Czech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains
  Good suggestion.
  
  Ahh jetbrains, my guilty pleasure. So good but not OSS...
- a lot of their services, like cloud, mail etc are unencrypted.
  Thanks for the heads up.
  I also advise not putting all your eggs in one basket.
  Good point.

Launchpad (UK, it's not just for Ubuntu stuff)
Good to see a UK offering.
Alternative to... lots of stuff: GitHub, Google, Gmail, Google Docs, Discord, Skype, Reddit, Twitter etc
Disroot (Netherlands, non-profit)
That's fantastic! It might solve a range of problems with transitioning from old media and a lot of their tools federate. I'm all in on this.
- I’m all in on this.
  
  Dagnabbit! But I also kinda love it. Well done.
  
  Ah ha, they are on Lemmy: !disroot_community@scribe.disroot.org
- Another... lemmyor? lemmista? pointed out that several of Disroot's services (cloud, email) are unecrypted, so be aware of that.
  
  Oh indeed, although they are quite clear which ones are. My biggest concern is the other bit of the lemming's warning (what I'm going with anyway), not to go all in, as you never know if the project is unsustainable without all the data harvesting. However, Google have taught me that lesson over thr years.

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