alt Hacker NewsCool! I wrote a similar blog post last year when I decided to "Cut GitHub out of the loop"
https://www.circusscientist.com/2025/07/23/cutting-github-ou...
My motivation was mainly the fact that Bitbucket cut their free tier, and who knows how long GitHub will be free? So I tried and found out how easy git actually is to sync without third parties
> and who knows how long GitHub will be free?
Apparently for as long as it will enable Microsoft to profit by training its LLMs on people's code.
For people uncomfortable with working on free/libre stuff with git directly I always suggest Codeberg as an alternative, but hands on git is also an excellent option.