alt Hacker NewsPeople who migrate away from Github, what makes you think they're more reliable? All Git services are prone to massive surges in commit volume due to AI agents. At least if Github goes down, your boss is not going to blame you.
I'd rather stay in Github and maybe use another service purely as backup.
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Codeberg specifically has a policy against projects that are maintained heavily with AI tooling, so I don't think they would have that problem.
Their terms of service forbid AI agents or even AI created code to be submitted there.
> I'd rather stay in Github and maybe use another service purely as backup.
Swap those two and you're on the right track. I think the best way to use GH is as a mirror for a self-hosted git instance, with or without web frontend. It gives you the reach of GH with the, dare I say it, reliability of self-hosted. It also gives you the chance to keep things off GH which you don't want to be there. Keep the self-hosted instance private for most things, use GH links for public access. When GH is down again you can always give people (temporary) access to your self-hosted instance if the need arrives.
> All Git services are prone to massive surges in commit volume due to AI agents.
You are probably wrong on that.
> You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5).
https://codeberg.org/codeberg/org/src/branch/main/TermsOfUse...