There's a bit of a feeling in the air this week that GitHub is no longer the place to be. It's been owned by Microsoft (boo hiss) for a few years, and nothing particular dreadful has happened so far. But now the CEO has left, and is being replaced by an AI cyborg (no no, I jest), so a degradation of grooviness is possibly on the horizon.
I've been casually moving things off GitHub for a couple of years, but not in any comprehensive way. I'm trying to move Wikimedia things to gitlab.wikimedia.org, other things to Codeberg.org, and a few things that are just for me are heading back to being a bare repo in my homedir on one of the servers I've got (it feels like it's 2009 again!). So I guess I'll carry on with all that.
In general, it does feel nice to not be forever consolidating on centralised commercial systems. I do wonder sometimes if Wikimedia sites aren't also overly centralised, but at least they're community driven (well, not "at least" but more "utterly crucially").
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