I have now also converted my remaining personal open source Git repositories (those which we don't already host at the institute's #Gitlab instance and which are not forked from or contribution to others) from #Github to #codeberg https://codeberg.org/rmayr

Github was a great improvement to make open source contributions and coordination easier, and it's a shame that the current AI hype drives everything into a single, non-sustainable niche direction... While Github is dependent on Microsoft AI stuff, my repositories are archived and will not see any further changes - I might even delete them altogether.

Explored the awesome-mcp-servers repo on GitHub today 🤯. Found a huge variety of MCP servers. Then searched on Google and found even more.

Whatever you search for, there is probably an "awesome" repo for it - Java, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, and more.

https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers
#AwesomeRepositories #GitHub #mcp-servers

https://codeberg.org/OpenBSD

I wonder if the #OpenBSD folk have considered moving their Git mirror from #GitHub to say #Codeberg ?

Just gonna mention one time more that the #github ToS gives them a license to use your content in a way that is very apparent in 2025 includes training their LLM on it.

The only license I will ever provide to my free software is the license it's publically released under, so I will never push it to #github, and have not since the day they made this part of their ToS.

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4. License Grant to Us We need the legal right to do things like host Your Content, publish it, and share it. You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time. This license includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video.

If you are one of the gazillion people migrating from #GitHub to #Codeberg, now might be a good time to throw them a few bucks to help with infrastructure costs: https://donate.codeberg.org/

#GitHub users would do well to look at #Radicle.

#git

#GitHub will be folded into #Microsoft proper as CEO steps down https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/github-will-be-folded-into-microsoft-proper-as-ceo-steps-down/

Tried this with a for me non-critical repository and wrote down my steps:

Old:
https://github.com/michael-simons/goodreads

New:
https://codeberg.org/michael-simons/goodreads

Move #GitHub to #Codeberg

Another AI enshittified Microsoft service terminated with prejudice 🔥
#github

For anyone interested why I ditched GitHub, and encourage others to. It's now a plagiarism engine.

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

I moved to GitLab when GitHub sold out to Mircosloth, but will probably move again to a trusted (non-AI infected) provider when I find one.

#github

People who are moving away from #GitHub…

The great thing about #GitHub's move to React, and thus being able to partially update the UI, is that you can construct inconsistencies you'd never get with a full-page refresh! *slowclap*

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A screenshot extract of the GitHub issues overview after a ticket has been closed showing that the actual criteria is “open tickets” but the just closed ticket still appearing in the list.

📢 CALL TO FEDIVERSE

Tons of discussion about seeking alternatives to #Microsoft #Github, now that it has become part of MS's #AI division.

What made GH so popular, we should ask? Well, a ton of features and services on top of #git and a huge platform that makes exploring millions of #FOSS projects easy, are among the reasons I suppose.

The #ActivityPub @forgefed project funded by #NGI0 via @nlnet is creating open standards to provide the same, *native* to the #fediverse!

Yet they need HELP.

@nixCraft @axx

Oh, so while we here in Europe where focusing on #why2025 microsoft basically started sunsetting #GitHub as we knew it?

So Microsoft still doing EEE https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish I guess...

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115011238880059593

@bagder
We should now all leave #github for #codeberg. Codeberg is free, open source and works great!

Lets go! Leave fascist colaborators behind!

Last week: "Oh no, GitHub's CEO says embrace AI or leave the profession."

This week: "Oh no, GitHub's CEO is leaving."

Next week, "Oh no, GitHub..."

Let's channel this angst into a more productive alternative: https://join.codeberg.org/

#Codeberg #GitHub

Been watching the #GitHub posts scroll by all day, and it only occurs to me now to re-up this 2022 blog post about how I started self-hosting my #git repositories as part of my website using GitWeb: https://fietkau.blog/2022/moving_from_github

It's a pretty eccentric solution that's definitely less convenient than hopping to Codeberg (which would be my recommendation if your projects need modern collaboration tools), but maybe it'll speak to some of you. 😇

Just a periodic reminder that Forgejo, the software that powers the open-source GitHub alternative Codeberg, has been working towards implementing federation.

https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/

Might be worth contributing, if you have the time and skills!

#forgejo #codeberg #opensource #github

We, the operators of this social media account, sometimes face dilemmas about what we want to post. For example: "Are you a Hubber and want to become a Berger? We're looking forward to you!"

Love it or hate it, one thing is certain: It doesn't really matter, because others are doing our marketing today. 🙃

#Codeberg #GiveUpGitHub #GitHub

and it occurs to me that I could/should move my personal website (https://kjordahl.net) off of GitHub pages as well, since it is just a static site. But another point of friction, and I'm not eager to do that work for little immediate return. But it is at least on my list to do so now.

#GitHub #xp

I have just created a @Codeberg account and pushed my latest personal project there. Releases are still published from GitHub, but one step at a time.

https://codeberg.org/kjordahl/steganan

#GitHub #xp

So yes, it is past time to diversify beyond #GitHub for open source repositories. Everything I have there these days is just low-traffic personal projects, so it is certainly possible without much trouble for myself. Not trivial for projects that manage issues, PRs, etc. there, though.

#xp

What's the third "E" again? Oh yeah.

Extinguish

#GitHub

it is curious how many people feel they need to ask me why #curl is not moving off #GitHub

The cold and boring answer is money. GitHub sponsors us with a crapload of CI infra that there is no other company even close to doing.

So while they may be an AI-first delusional company, they help our project so much more than all other hosting sites combined.

It would be reckless and irresponsible of us to ignore this.

People justify continuing to use #GitHub in all sorts of ways.

"OK, they're owned by Microsoft who has spent decades trying to crush FOSS, but..."

"Yes, they steal code to feed their planet-destroying LLMs, but..."

"Sure, they help ICE enforce fascist policy, but..."

"Yes, they're supporting genocide, but..."

There's no "but" clause that justifies supporting all of that.

Values require sacrifices. This is the price we pay for the world we want.

Don't collaborate. #Resist #GiveUpGitHub

it is curious how many people feel they need to ask me why #curl is not moving off #GitHub

The cold and boring answer is money. GitHub sponsors us with a crapload of CI infra that there is no other company even close to doing.

So while they may be an AI-first delusional company, they help our project so much more than all other hosting sites combined.

It would be reckless and irresponsible of us to ignore this.

Odd note added to the #GitHubActions cache repo:
https://github.com/actions/cache#note

"Thank you for your interest in this GitHub repo, however, right now we are not taking contributions.

"We continue to focus our resources on strategic areas that help our customers be successful while making developers' lives easier. While GitHub Actions remains a key part of this vision, we are allocating resources towards other areas of Actions and are not taking contributions to this repository at this time."

#GitHub

Starting August 20, 2025, I will not be contributing to projects hosted on #GitHub via GitHub itself, unless I am paid handsomely for my troubles.

If I need to report an issue, or send a patch, I will either keep the report / patch to myself, publish it on my forge, or if I really, really want to contribute, I will send an e-mail. But opening an issue, or sending a PR on GitHub itself? Not going to happen, unless I'm paid for it.

#GiveUpGitHub

GitHub CEO: Embrace AI or get out.

https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8

PS. Here’s where to go: @Codeberg

https://codeberg.org

(As an additional bonus, you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing you’re part of an anti-fascist not-for-profit cooperative instead of a trillion-dollar US corporation that’s helping Israel commit genocide.)

#git #sourceControl #revisionControl #GitHub #Codeberg #dev #AI #BigTech #Microsoft #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

Embrace Java or get out. Embrace XML or get out. #github

So I've just migrated all of my (admittedly entirely uninteresting) #GitHub repos to my own #Forgejo installation. I have no illusions that anyone will actually care about this move, but at least it removes one of the many pebbles in my stomach.

I did not need convincing that using and relying on centralised services run by large, non-European companies is bad; that has been clear for decades. Dependency, privacy concerns, legal implications and the general issue of "being the product" are all well-known and not-so-well-aged problems.

So what's new? Well that's easy: Most - or even all - the companies and services that fall under the umbrella loosely defined above have turned into outright Trump-apologists and bona fide supporters of fascism. Oh and they steal everyones stuff and feed it to their LLMs.

I should have done this a long time ago, and even so I'm keeping my presence on GitHub simply because it's pretty much a necessity to be able to contribute to other projects. And doing that is still more important than "sticking it to the guy": The positive impact of contributing (and maintaining a low bar for me to do so) still seems too important to outright deleting me account.

I'm willing to hear arguments to the contrary, though. #SelfHosting #Independence #EU #DigitalFreedom #OnlineFreedom

Since Microsoft is organising a European Sovereign Tech Fund, we should ask Lockheed Martin to put together a European Sovereign Defense Fund. There’s probably also opportunity here to bring Amazon in to advise on EU labour standards and have McDonald’s take the lead on food safety policy in the EU.

CC @EUCommission

#EU #USA #corporateCapture #europeanSovereignTechFund #microsoft #github #openSource #freeSoftware #tech #freedom #humanRights #democracy

The only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.

But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.

There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of trying).

Note which people and organisations allow their names to be used to legitimise this effort so you don’t trust a thing they say on this subject in the future.

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/we-need-a-european-sovereign-tech-fund/

#EU #FOSS #freedom #tech #funding #EuropeanSovereignTechFund #corporateCapture #openWashing #BigTech #microsoft #GitHub

from now on, if someone asks me to interact with source code on GitHub, i am simply going to say "sorry, i cannot, GitHub does not allow IPv6 access”.

i've run into this too many times to make working around it my problem. now it's someone else's problem.

#ipv6 #github

Oh, joy, every 'next' link is broken in #GitHub.

I'm surprised that running scheduled #GitHub jobs for particular branches seems to require YAML kung-fu from hell. Is that not one of the most fundamental features of a CI system? on > push > branches works. on > schedule > branches doesn't? Why?

Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter #439 - Week Ending July 4, 2025. zc.vg/fxPq8?m=0 #dewdrop #newsletter #aspnetcore #javascript #azure #xaml #windev #csharp #dotnet #ai #agile #devops #github #IoT #podcasts #m365 #sqlserver

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Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter #439 - Week Ending July 4, 2025.

https://zc.vg/fxPq8?m=0

#dewdrop #newsletter #aspnetcore #javascript #azure #xaml #windev #csharp #dotnet #ai #agile #devops #github #IoT #podcasts #m365 #sqlserver

#curl survey 2025 respondents are not fans of #GitHub, but also not terribly against it...

(piece of the full analysis that I'm working on)

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pie chart showing 21.6% yes, 20.8% no and the rest are indifferent or "I don't know"

Hello #rust people 🦀

Am I correct in my understanding that to use or manage rust crates I would need a #GitHub login?

Looking at crates.io and this github issue[1] from 2016 it seems that using Microsoft's GitHub is the only way to login or publish. Is that still the case?

I'm rather reluctant to go back to using GitHub having given up GitHub[2] some years ago.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326

[2] https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/

#GiveUpGithub

We're planning to provide a #jMolecules CLI to generate source code for #DDD artifacts. Any #GitHub Actions / #GraalVM / #jReleaser experts out there who'd be willing to help / contribute the binary distribution setup necessary? Please chime in here: https://github.com/xmolecules/jmolecules-integrations/issues/331 ☕️⚗️🍃📦

Dear #GitHub, when I click on a link to an English language documentation page, I don't want to be automatically redirected to a machine generated German translation.

Yes, I have both enabled in my browser. Multi-lingual people are a thing. If I want a translation, I'll explicitly ask for it.

Every site whose product owner/manager insists on automatic translation should immediately fire them.