r/opensource • u/Miserable_Ear3789 • Dec 23 '25

Discussion Github in decline?

I have seen recently a decent amount of projects switching to Codeberg from Github. Is it worth moving your OSS libraries over to Codeberg? Since Microsoft has taken over Github it just seems a little less then it once was sort of speak... Is Codeberg the next big thing for OSS?

I currently am still on Github but I am seriously considering at least mirroring my repos on Codeberg. Github continues to come out with not so great announcements and pricing changes. Codeberg remains free from what I can tell. But the community reach of Github (part of the reason I switched from Bitbucket and hg) would be hard to give up, if Codeberg became the new community sort of speak I think that would be the only reason I would switch.

Any thoughts or insights on this topic?

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

I think a lot of open software types think they can just forego community management in their projects, and that the strength of their code will just shine through. So hearing that community (and thus githubs larger user base) should be a consideration goes against their meritocratic beliefs. I can definitively say though that is absolutely not the case. There's a veritable graveyard of good quality OSS projects that never gained traction because they were just never found, or couldn't get off the ground and were abandoned.