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Why I'm leaving #GitHub

TL;DR

• GitHub logged 257 incidents in May 2025 to April 2026, 48 of them major. The CTO publicly apologised and said capacity needs to scale 30x to keep up with AI-driven load.
• In August 2025 GitHub stopped having its own CEO. It is now a unit of Microsoft's #CoreAI division, the same group building Copilot and the broader AI stack.
• On April 24, 2026 GitHub flipped #Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ user-interaction data to opt-in for AI training by default. There is no repository-level opt-out.
• US-jurisdictional risk under #FISA Section 702 and the CLOUD Act is unresolved. Microsoft's own attorney told the French Senate under oath he could not #guarantee #EU data was safe from silent US #government access.

So tell me why do they still use GitHub?

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Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo | Jorijn Schrijvershof

I left GitHub for self-hosted Forgejo on a hardened NUC. The reason is digital sovereignty, not reliability outages. Here's the thinking and the architecture.

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JTI May 14

@scriptkiddie Now the more interesting questions here are:

Self Host the Forgejo and pay in-money or in-kind for its upkeep yourself?
If not, how's that forge going to survive economically given the GitHub level scale (or even a fraction of it)? And no, throwing tax money at it and claiming that's like infra like our streets and powerplants that need to be gov run is not the answer. Exhibit A: Look at the streets and infra and look at cost of operation for that state. 🫠

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Script Kiddie May 14

@jti42 - why is Firefox or the Linux Kernel still free? Perhaps we simply need to move away from capitalism’s purely profit-driven logic and develop models that prioritize the common good.

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JTI May 14

@scriptkiddie Well, I'm not so sure about that line of reasoning.

I'd like to offer two things: a virtually unchangeable licensing situation that benefits the Linux kernel to this date and substantial financial investment by very large corporates who see it as one of their means of production or costs of doing business. Famously both Microsoft and IBM are among the larger sponsors of it these days.
As for Firefox: I'm sure you're aware of or will easily find the ways that Mozilla finances its operations and the dynamics that come with it (among others slowly starting to monetize data/interactions, parterships etc). Clearly FF works and is a reasonable product with an arguable approach to financing of operations.
I'm afraid both cases can be easily and completely explained by strictly capitalist reasoning.
As for the organizational constructions around both of those examples: 2x 501(c)3, 1x 501(c)6, the (c)3's being tax-exempt and are explicit "common good" vehicles. The (c)6 is a "common good for the group of those who created it" vehicle. Some profit-oriented vehicles being integrated in at least one of them.
Other than that: Forgejo is still great software and should be used more. Obviously without ignoring the built-in request for in-kind or in-money sponsoring by those who derive value from it... :D