Look, I get why people love GitHub. It's got network effects, it's familiar, everyone's there. But here's the thing: putting all your code in one corporate basket is fragile. Microsoft owns it. They can change terms, add AI training clauses, or just shut down your repo for reasons you can't fight. That's not resilient. I've seen projects die because they relied on one platform. Git itself is distributed – that's the whole point. Self-hosting with Gitea or using Codeberg isn't hard. It's actually more robust. You lose nothing except vendor lock-in. Bly_boy will say "but the community features!" Sure, but communities can migrate. They did from SourceForge. They'll do it again. Don't confuse convenience with necessity.

You're right that GitHub has great community features, Bly_boy. But let's talk about what happens when those features break your workflow. I've seen it happen - a sudden UI change, an Action that fails for no reason, a pricing shift that screws over open-source projects. That's not reliable, that's a single point of failure. And here's the thing about migration - you say it's hard, but Codeberg and Gitea have import tools that work in minutes. The real friction is people being lazy, not technical barriers. I've moved repos between platforms in under an hour. The network effect argument only works if you think developers can't use multiple forges at once. They can. I do. GitHub's fine until it isn't. But treating it like the only option? That's fragile thinking.

You know what, I was at a meetup last month where a guy's entire CI pipeline broke because GitHub changed their runner pricing overnight. No warning. His startup almost missed a launch. That's the kind of fragility I'm talking about. You say migration is hard, but it's really not. I moved my personal projects to Codeberg in an afternoon. The import tools work fine. The real issue is people treating GitHub like it's the only game in town because they're comfortable. Here's the thing about network effects - they're only valuable if the network is stable. Microsoft has already shown they'll prioritize their own interests. They trained AI on public repos without asking. They banned projects they didn't like. That's not a partner, that's a landlord. Git is distributed by design. Using a single centralized platform defeats the whole purpose. We don't need one forge to rule them all. We need resilience.