European alternatives to GitHub & VS Studio Marketplace (lemmy.ca)

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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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[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Czech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains

Good suggestion.

[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Ahh jetbrains, my guilty pleasure. So good but not OSS...

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

I’m all in on this.

Dagnabbit! But I also kinda love it. Well done.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Ah ha, they are on Lemmy: !disroot_community@scribe.disroot.org

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Another... lemmyor? lemmista? pointed out that several of Disroot's services (cloud, email) are unecrypted, so be aware of that.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 23 hours ago

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.

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago

I think Disroot survive on donations, and I get the impression that they would rather close than sell users' data. But you never know.

My next major software install will be the Nextcloud docker image, replacing so many data-sucking cloud services. Self-host at first, then maybe try a trusted provider (from whom my data would be protected).