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  "path": "/t/why-use-github-why-not-use-savannah-others-or-self-host/12338?page=5#post_90",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T09:23:39.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I get the concern, but as someone building an open-source project that will also be on F-Droid, the boring answer for me was the discovery.\n\nGitHub is still where a lot of users, contributors, bug reporters, packagers, and security people already look. For newer or smaller open-source projects, being on GitHub can make the difference between getting feedback and being basically invisible.\n\nThat doesn’t mean GitHub is good or ideal. Codeberg, Forgejo, GitLab, Savannah, etc. are better aligned with free software values in many ways. But I’m not sure “developed on GitHub” should be an anti-feature for the app itself, especially if the app is still free software, builds on F-Droid, and doesn’t depend on GitHub at runtime.\n\nI’d rather see projects encouraged to mirror elsewhere and keep contribution paths open than punish them for using the one place where people are most likely to find and help them.",
  "title": "Why use Github, why not use Savannah, others, or self-host?"
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