As you can easily notice, today many open source projects are using some services, that are… sus.
For example, Github is the most popular place to store your project code and we all know, who owns it. And not to forget that sketchy AI training on every line of your code. Don’t we have alternatives? Oh, yes we have. Gitlab, Codeberg, Notabug, etc. You can even host your own Gitea or Forgejo instance if you want.
Also, Crowdin is very popular in terms of software (and docs) translation. Even Privacy Guides and The New Oil use Crowdin, even though we have FLOSS Weblate, that you can easily self-host or use public instances.
So, my question is: if you are building a FLOSS / privacy related project, why using proprietary and privacy invasive tools?
Usually because resources are limited, both financial and time, so people make do with what they can.
As projects grow, and as the FOSS alternatives improve, projects can switch over.
Usually, that isn’t happening and big projects just stay at Github, which is kinda sad.
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
this is the saddest example
They will say “it’s just Git so we can easily switch whenever” but 90% of the time the start buying into the platform-exclusive features & say it will be too difficult to move later. I can have sympathy for legacy projects before the buyout, but now you 're purposefully buying in despite knowing better.