As an enthusiastic supporter of Lemmy, I am eager to contribute to the project. However, I hold strong reservations about writing a single line of code for a project hosted on a Micro$oft server. While I have created a few issues on GitHub, I firmly believe that my contributions could be significantly amplified if there were a mirror of Lemmy that utilized Forgejo hosting outside the United States. I would be absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to contribute more actively to this incredible project if such an alternative hosting option were available.
Don’t get me wrong, we want to leave but we just don’t have the resources to make it possible as we just have other priorities at this point.
Atom was neglected for a long time before it was officially abandoned so we have had an awful lot of work getting it updated to modern tools, getting a new package backend working (written from scratch as the original was closed source), getting a website and documentation up and running. Those were by far our largest priorities - being on GitHub isn’t breaking anything or causing us problems.
We have no love for Microsoft and GitHub, bear in mind that Pulsar is a fork of Atom. An editor we loved enough to continue development of it but was actively killed off by Microsoft purchasing GitHub and putting all their focus onto VSCode. We don’t trust or like what they have done and what they may do so as much as it wounds me to be on GitHub I can concede it is still the right choice for the time being.
(Btw I also used this thread as inspiration to start up a conversation about this in a more general context that you may be interested in: https://lemmy.ml/post/1990593)