We don't need a new GitHub

GitHub, the central space for many open-source projects and a mirror site for even more repositories from other sources, the place where AI slop is being pushed by the Git host. A place initially meant to share code with likeminded folks it quickly grew to be the biggest Git repository host in the world. Today it is home to many large projects. But this also comes at a cost. We are dependant on it, it being available, it being free of monetary cost. Also once we start using it, it makes it hard to move away. The features aroung the bare git repository are quite hard to migrate to another platform and you would need to have all the people working together with you also join that new platform. This last problem is not unique to GitHub, but since it is the most dominant platform it is more important here. It is very likely someone already has a GitHub account, but not very likely that someone has an account even on GitLab. Needless to say that niche hosts like Codeberg are hard to bring people over too. Many of the largest projects are hosting their code themselves, like the Linux Kernel project and many Linux distributions too. Some have mirrors on other sites, but many also don’t.