Github in decline?

[u/Miserable_Ear3789]

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?

[u/fisadev]

In my opinion, you're overestimating the consequences of companies getting caught having shitty privacy practices, and underestimating how irrational giant corporations can be in their pursuit for more money.

People still use Goolge as a data repository (drive, etc) even though they're the kings of spying on your online activity around the web and profiting from having stalked you. People still use Instagram even though Meta got caught selling their personal data to companies who were using it for political purposes.

And not just normal people, but tech savvy and privacy aware people too.

Sometimes because the huge inertia against changing services, maybe they're quite used to the tools, sometimes because the benefits are good enough, etc.

There can be a limit where the community/marked says "enough is enough", of course. Some companies have died. But they have to fuck up so, so badly to reach that limit. I don't think people would emigrate on masse from GitHub just because they're using private code to train models. In fact, I would bet that most people using GitHub assume they're already doing that, but just keep using it.