Get off of github.
Move towards selfhosting.
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Codeberg is also really nice if you are doing open source
If Github just kills repos without explanation, then using Github for anything is a mistake.
The moment Microsoft bought it people should have started coding somewhere else. It's just like everything Microsoft buys, it gets the Microsoft touch, survives for a bit, they make something to replace it and it's gone forever.
This! Codeberg, Forjego, Gitea, or bust at this point.
I'm OOTL. Why don't people recommend GitLab?
GitLab is proprietary, despite being source-available. Forjego, Codeberg (based upon Forjego), Gitea and a couple others are all Free Software.
Forgejo is a fork of gitea, because gitea was heading to the GitLab model
I remember when Microsoft first bought GitHub there was a pretty huge push to get off of it and onto gitlab.
Is there a reason gitlab isn’t recommended anymore?
A preferred solution is available now.
there are non-profit FOSS hosting sites such as Codeberg, who develop their platform publicly as FOSS.
Gotcha, thought it might be the license and the fact gitlab is proprietary. Thanks for elaborating further on that.
Heard a lot about codeberg and forgejo on Lemmy but not a lot outside of here. Liking what I see so far
I've stumbled upon plenty of projects that migrated to alternative platforms. If anything, this may just further accelerate the process.
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Problem is when looking for a job. 3/4 of what I have been applying for asks for a github link to your projects and won't accept something that doesn't match 'github.com'.
Let me preface with the fact that I know nothing about Git or GitHub. Could you just have one "project" and have the readme be links to your Codeberg/Forgejo/GitTea projects?
Most big open-source projects have a GitHub mirror with a link to the real project.
Yes that can be done.
And now you know why Microsoft bought it. Nothing better than a captive user base.
Is this for real? That’s incredibly stupid.
Can confirm, both true and stupid.
Just make mirror repos.
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The question however is: where should one move then? I'm genuinely asking since moving away from Github is something I've been meaning to do for a while now but didn't have the time to search for alternatives.
The only one I know about is Codeberg, which could work for most but not all of my projects (for now at least). Anyone here knows other tried and tested platforms worth looking into? Preferably free as I'm not in a position to pay for this stuff at the moment.
I've seen many FOSS projects use gitlab. You can even self-host it. Also, from https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/ linked in another comment:
- Alternative Hosting Services:
Codeberg
SourceHut
- Self-Host (or join a group that self-hosts). A few options:
Forgejo
GitLab Community Edition (note, the GitLab Enterprise Edition, which is provided to the public on gitlab.com, is (like GitHub) trade-secret, proprietary, vendor-lock-in software)
SourceHut
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As I always comment on this type of post : Go go gadget-o Codeberg !
This smells suspiciously similar to the stuff affecting adult content on Steam, like Horses. No one's saying anything about any of it, which feels like that's on advice from their legal counsel.
I think they are testing the waters of just open warfare against indie developers. Microsoft has no interest in platforming their competitors. They start with the adult games because no one is going to defend them. Once the precedent is set, they go after everyone else. They do the same thing with porn as a vehicle to attack free speech.
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It's because they got bought out by Microsoft(currently microslop).
I really don't think I need to expand on that.
So they waited 7 years to do the ban? You know that happened in 2018, right?
You know people were saying this was going to happen eventually back in 2018 when that happened, right?
We have seen how much MicroSlop has stopped caring about their products over the last few years, so this shouldn't be that surprising.
Sure, but my point is that the purchase isn't why this happened. It's huge stretch to say that, we're way past the teething stages here and it's been a Microsoft product for a long time now. No love lost for Microsoft by me, I'm full-time on Linux anyhow so it's not like I'm defending them or something absurd.
GitHub themselves have gotten to be a big company and big companies make heavy-handed and controversial decisions on their own. Maybe GitHub is the baddie is all I'm trying to say here.
There's a bit of merit to that. After a purchase, a lot of people are wary, and likely to magnify any changes that happen immediately. They need a period of stabilization to dissuade fears, and assure that "nothing will change in the long run". Even this article is highlighting what happened around a month ago over a period of time, because it wasn't apparent in the moment.
For anyone that needs to know: it's criminally easy to set up git for multiple remotes, making a migration from GitHub a lot easier.
Remember that origin is just the default, and you can have any number configured you want.
- View all remotes:
git remote -v - Add new remote:
git remote add $name $url - Push to another remote:
git push $remotename $branchname - Pull from a specific remote:
git pull $remotename/$branchname(note the slash) - Fetch from all remotes:
git fetch --all
The first two are just one-time setup, and the rest just get bolted onto your existing workflow. At some point, you'll want to use git remote move names around, possibly even making origin something other than GitHub. Cheers.
If only the forge parts were part of the spec like I believe in fossil for example. They are pretty much standardized already. All of the forges have issues, prs, releases. If there exists a git extension for this already, we really ought to spread that via word of mouth because at least I’m not aware of one. If not, I hope someone more familiar with the git spec could work one out and write helpful contribution guides to go with it. I, same as a lot of others I would believe, would be very much interested in helping build one.
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damn. what a time to be alive.
“Perhaps most frustratingly, all of the tickets, pull requests, past release builds and changelogs are gone, because those things are not part of Git (the version control system),” Sauceke told me. “So even if someone had the foresight to make mirrors before the ban (as I did), those mirrors would only keep up with the code changes, not these ‘extra’ things that are pretty much vital to our work.”
What can be done about this?
Store your code away from Microsoft
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GOTTA ASTROTURF THAT WEBSITE FOR ADVERTISERS BAYBEE. CANT WAIT FOR GITHUB POPUPS.
I haven't really dived deep on this but my gut feeling is because they linked to the erotic games. I looked into this a bit in the past, but I may be getting it mixed up with Google's policies on Docs now that I'm thinking of it, but maybe they have similar policies. The gist was that they weren't as concerned with hosting legal artistic erotic content as they were linking to it. Like they didn't want their platform to be used in a way to sort of advertise porn. I'm actually pretty sure I'm thinking of Google Docs though. I was looking for a way to publish erotic stories and considered GitHub Pages as well as Google Docs so it sort of blends together.
Sounds like advertisments are coming and advertisers want the platform squeaky clean. Either that or some lunatic group harrassed Github.
This is just TOS enforcement, they updated their TOS in October. From the article:
Github updated its acceptable use policies in October 2025 to forbid “sexually themed or suggestive content that serves little or no purpose other than to solicit an erotic or shocking response, particularly where that content is amplified by its placement in profiles or other social contexts.” This include pornographic content and “graphic depictions of sexual acts including photographs, video, animation, drawings, computer-generated images, or text-based content,” according to the terms.
So they suspended users without telling them about the fairly recent TOS update? That's just scummy behaviour.
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No shock Microsoft would do this.
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