Lots of major free software projects are hosted by the project creators to avoid being screwed over by proprietary services.
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If Microsoft were to release a competing link aggregator; then they could persuade GitHub (Microsoft’s subsidiary) into locking or removing the main repository for Lemmy’s source code.
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- If that happens - git remote set-url origin newurl- Not saying self hosting the remote is not a good idea, just that the risk you mention is not so dramatic - Yup, Microsoft can’t relicense the code, it can merely make it inconvenient to access on their platform. It’s really a non-issue. 
 
- Codeberg! Codeberg! Codeberg! 

