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Thank you, this is very helpful.

Anyone may purchase a domain name from a registrar (such as 'example.com'). That is not a 'lower platform'. It's just a domain name. Sure, it's not as popular as 'github.com' but in every other way (in the DNS) it is equal. And unlike github.com, you have full control of that domain and its DNS records.

There are no unique legal issues with regard to buying a domain name and writing and publishing source code on that domain. Using 'github.com' to host your source code does not give you more legal rights or protections. Copyright is copyright and a license is a license no matter where you publish it.

You should not be afraid to buy a domain, write source code and publish it there. It's not illegal to do that and you are not at more risk (although these big central social platforms would like for you to believe that).

That idea sort of proves that Github has evolved into a popularity contest/social platform. It use to be a git hosting company.

I have been thinking about closing my Github account and moving all my code to gitweb on one of my personal domains. I'm tired of the social/popularity contest aspect of Github and just want to write and publish code that I find interesting. I also want more control and I don't want my code used for AI research like co pilot. I thought about trying source hut, or something similar, but I feel it will end-up just like github once it gets more users.

Has anyone else setup a simple gitweb server on a personal domain? If so, how did it turn out?

I do this too. I can do anything with vim, Go and a Makefile.

They are probably trying to reduce SIP abuse. It's a big problem.

Every language dreams of being faster and safer than C and C++. Can't have it both ways.