Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

benthecarman

Our CI for our entire org at https://github.com/lightningdevkit was turned off for 3 weeks because an outside contributor who was wrongfully banned made a PR. After multiple appeals we received no explanation and was told it was a permanent ban until we made a stir on twitter. They sadly are no longer a good place to work.

latexr

> One new user joins every second Do they? Or is it that a new account is opened every second? Because I’ve been seeing so many spammers and scammers that those numbers have to be skewed.

sneak

Did we all forget that GitHub’s military-industrial complex owners over at Microsoft made sure to send the “business as usual” signal to the USG when they refused to stop helping ICE violate human rights en masse? This was during the kidnap-and-rape-kids-in-cages days and before they started a general policy of kidnapping and/or summarily executing law-abiding citizens in the street. There are more reasons now to disassociate with collaborators with the US federal government than ever. I guess I could say I dropped GitHub before it was cool? https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-and-us... https://github.com/sneak Microsoft is a morally bankrupt and despicable organization, just like Meta, Amazon, and modern Google and Apple. Anyone still doing ongoing business with them in 2026 is, imho, a fool.

cryo32

I've ditched Github for all personal stuff. I just keep my repositories offline. I have a reliable backup process so what's the point in pushing it there? I don't give a shit about public profile, stars or any of that gamified crap and I certainly don't trust them.

ezoe

I guess three nines availability is important.

Cider9986

Why don't open source alternatives just copy the UI to make it easier to switch? Everyone knows the GitHub UI and it's intuitive. I'm happy to get more privacy and freedom, you don't have to make a worse design just to be different. Fluxer figured this out and they're the best discord replacement imo. https://fluxer.app/

5701652400

+ predatory pricing hikes for AI + not honouring yearly commitments plans

rob

People are going to copy GitHub the way people copied Facebook… how is "Threads" doing again?

jorisw

Sentiment for/against GitHub aside... "Why X are doing Y" articles like these pretend that the premise of "X are doing Y" is true, conveniently skipping to the "Why" before proving that the premise is even accurate in any meaningful way. This is why I never buy headlines that start out with "Why". > developers are ditching Proceeds to list but a handful of remotely meaningful repos against the hundreds of thousands on there

BrenBarn

So sad to see that no articles about this even mention Mercurial. This is a golden opportunity for Hg providers to shine.

onesandofgrain

self-hosted gitea/forgejo is still better

hambos22

It's been 9 months since I ditched Github. Currently I self-host Gitea [0], use its registry for Docker, NPM etc and act runners [1] for github actions alternative, everything secured under tailnet. I'm extremely satisfied with that setup. It is batteries included & fire and forget. Now I use Github only as backup by mirroring my self hosted repos. [0] https://gitea.com [1] https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/act-runner

Havoc

Im just glad the wider world has finally snapped out of their GitHub mono culture trance.

ahmedehab_01

Extreme generalization, most devs aren't ditching GitHub yet.

Scaled

For private code, it just feels safer to self host that -- ideally behind wireguard for an extra layer of security. For public code hosting, GitHub have banned too many people/projects for comfort. From security researchers to 18+ game devs, too many have been wrongfully banned.

srean

Anyone has suggestions for hosting open source hobby projects managed with Mercurial. Loved Bitbucket's Mercurial offering. Looking for a replacement.

fmind-dev

It reminds me of the time where I deployed Gitea for self-hosting my git projects. In the end, nobody wanted to use it beyond myself. I would love to have a true federation protocol for Git, to decentralize the solution further.

littlecranky67

Mostly because developers (me included) don't like to be told we are being laid off due to AI that was trained on our free open-source hobby projects.

iamwil

Anyone tried tangle as a replacement? Verdict?

feverzsj

It's pretty much broken by AI. Not only your private repos are not private, but also the LLM will leak them.