alt Hacker NewsHelp encourage alternatives by trying Gitlab.com or Codeberg.org or Tangled.org or others, and please star some projects there to help motivate more options.
Self-promo links below if you would like to star a few of mine good for developers.
https://gitlab.com/architecture-decision-record
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Rather use BitBucket or GitLab really, both GitLab and BitBucket have been around nearly as long as GitHub? Apparently BitBucket and GitHub are both 2008, and GitLab is 2011. The others you mentioned could go on a whim.
GitHub being ruined after the AI hype is a shallow take imo. The root problem isn't AI, Microsoft, or Azure; It's why people keep _trusting_ centralized infra.
GitLab and Codeberg can absolutely become trash, each in their own way.
The solution isn't just "migrating off of GitHub"; it's "migrating to a platform that is unownable by design, not only hope".
And there are no good enough decentralized alternatives to GitHub yet.
Tangled.org's decentralization has serious holes. Radicle made an alien universe; a niche within a niche. Also, it's already having problems with ISPs: https://radicle.dev/2026/04/23/domain-move
Codeberg isn't a viable infrastructure alternative. Its an opinionated community not a neutral host as they will delete repos based off subjective opinions on LLM usage and resource consumption. If continued hosting is dependent on moderators deciding if a project fits whatever the current philosophy is, and the whims of the moderation team, then I cannot consider it a serious choice for infrastructure.
Infrastructure should be neutral. Codeberg is a social club