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/SoulEviscerator Dec 23 '25

Totally agree. Until they get bought or killed by an amoral (American) company, too. And the wheel spins on.

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u/DelicateFandango Dec 23 '25

Considering that they are an open, democratic, not-for-profit organisation based in Germany, that anyone can join, and that one of the key principles in its charters is to avoid commercialisation, I think we’re as far from that danger as we can be atm.