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GitLab is relatively more widely represented, but of the projects I encounter, about 2-3% are on GitLab. I encountered projects on Codeberg, too, and even on sr.ht.

A bunch of larger projects have a mirror on GitHub for easier access.

BTW there's launchpad.net which is often overlooked, bit it's vital for Ubuntu-specific projects.

At paid day jobs, I had to use BitBucket at least twice, and I miss better code review tools, like Phabricator.

GitHub definitely dominates the market, partly due to the network effects, but I don't think they have a lot of moat. If something goes badly enough wrong there, there will be plenty of viable alternatives with an easy to trivial migration path.



> GitHub definitely dominates the market, partly due to the network effects, but I don't think they have a lot of moat. If something goes badly enough wrong there, there will be plenty of viable alternatives with an easy to trivial migration path.

Their moat is a billion development tool vendors that have "integrate with Github" as a must-have and expected functionality.


> BTW there's launchpad.net which is often overlooked, bit it's vital for Ubuntu-specific projects.

It's overlooked because in true Canonical fashion they went hard in on their not-invented-here-syndrome VCS that nobody asked for or wanted. That and also the integration with Ubuntu and nothing else.




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