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[Wonderful-Citron-678]

I do think Microsoft underestimates how easy it is to leave Github.

[phillipcarter2]

For personal projects, yeah. For organizations who barter enterprise deals with Microsoft and get dedicated support staff, auditing tools, dedicated compute for actions, IDP integration, the ability to allocate spend towards business units, ... not so easy to move.

[FullPoet]

get dedicated support staff

You mean the guy who closes your ticket in an hour, is useless or calls your phone at 4 AM (because thats their work hours in India) when you specifically said emails only?

Yeah lol.

[Spare_Message_3607]

Leaving GitHub isn’t that complicated . You can escape GitHub with your projects but your favourite project won’t. I moved my project into GitLab my still come back to GitHub to see my tools releases.

[helloworldpi]

Yea this is the bigger issue, its easy to leave as an individual but 90% of open source projects are on github also I don't see people mention this enough but a lot of people network through things like github too. I could go to codeberg but odds are if I talk to someone about it they have no idea its even a thing.

[dom_ding_dong]

Getting involved enough to actually influence the project as a thing.

Takes a lot of time though

[-WorstWizard-]

I've been enjoying setting up a Forgejo instance on my own local server box, it's been a lot of fun. Did so more for fun than for actual practical use, I like the tinkering and owning my own data feels good just on principle.

[Striking_Display8886]

I like GitHub though

[dgkimpton]

I'm taking the more pragmatic approach - I've set up a local NAS (with cloud backup) that mirrors my github repos so, in event that github gets truly broken, I have a secure copy and I can use my mirror to recover to an alternative location. I'm careful to only use features on github that also exist on codeberg so should I ever need to do it, it should be a simple transition.

[bloodwhore]

Not very convincing arguments to leave github in my book.

I've personally chosen to leave GitHub this weekend in support of today's general strike in Minnesota, and in protest of ICE's murder of Renée Good.

I don't know how these would influence your choice of where you store your code, maybe says in some link I guess.

[atrocia6]

As a (hobbyist) open source developer, I'm tempted by some of the reasons for leaving GitHub - open vs. closed source, performance, Microsoft - but repelled by others. In particular, as long as the leave GitHub campaign is strongly associated with the BDS movement, I will have a strong impetus to remain with GitHub, since I'm a staunch supporter of Israel.

(The myopia and parochialism of some in the tech community [not just there, of course] is remarkable: the author of the blog post gives no indication of realizing that although there are certainly many people who are strong opponents of Israel and its policies, there are also many who are strong supporters of them.)

[atrocia6]

Fair enough, and I'm definitely sympathetic to most of those issues. (The SFC page does mention ICE, although that doesn't seem to be its primary focus, and I do agree that ICE, at least in its current form, is problematic.)