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What's the deal with exodus from GitHub? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I see many repos moving to codeberg or other gits and many posts recommending to do so. Why is that? I've been a bit out of the loop

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[–] 100 points 1 year ago (19 children)

The ceo stepped down and now its just being rolled fully into Microsoft.

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/11/github-ceo-dohmke-step-down

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  • [–] [S] -5 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    I saw that but it didn't seem enough to justify it

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Microsoft owning github was already enough of a reason, people just somehow managed to ignore that very good reason for the past 8 years. Glad they are waking up now. Microsoft is a cancer sucking life out of everything it touches.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Are people leaving VS Code as well? Because that’s Microsoft, too.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's better than nothing, but it's a soft fork, which means MS is still steering the ship.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    The recent relentless AI-ification is another pain-point. People are getting sick of having to constantly fend off slob pull requests.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What does Microsoft have to do with that? You can make the same AI PRs anywhere you want.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    MS is well known for their backing of AI. They will not be putting any efforts into preventing it. On the contrary they are forcing it into every feature of every product including GitHub. So yeah those PRs can happen everywhere, but here they are encouraged heavily more and more as time goes on instead of mitigated, repressed, or even optionally controlled.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    They do offer their "Copilot Workspaces", where you can basically tell a chatbot to make changes to a GitHub repo and directly open a pull request, without having to check out the repo or install the language tooling.
    This might sound good, but we're talking you get PRs which don't even compile. Where you spend more time sighting the PR for malicious code before you send it off to CI/CD than they did copy-pasting the issue text into a chatbox.

    And I would attribute it to individual stupidity, if this wasn't exactly how Microsoft's ad video presents it. You'll inevitably get young coders who believe it, because the magical chatbot is really good at solving their homework.

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    • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't code but it was all over mastodon.. The CEO of github said to everyone use AI or leave GitHub..

    Everyone was upset about it. A week later the CEO resigned basically enabling M$ full access or whatever so it can become more closed source..

    People are going on strike.

    You might need to let other people comment to catch you up but that was basically it!

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    • [–] 44 points 1 year ago

    the ceo left and microsoft folded github into the aicore team while praising ai coding.

    basically gh is no longer run independently and the focus of it is on ai

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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    The CEO told everyone they need to start using AI or get off GitHub. Then he left and now it’s all part of Microsoft’s AI shitbots.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    While I don't have much, I stopped pushing updates to my open source projects on GitHub and push them to Codeberg instead. I do this because, in my opinion, I believe Microsoft violated the license of a lot of open source software by building AI off of it. Given the current case law in the US, I doubt the courts would agree with my opinion, and obviously I'm not a legal expert. Either way, just because something is legal doesn't make it acceptable.

    This has nothing to do with the GitHub CEO removal or whatever that happened lately. This was about a year ago that I did this. GitHub has been owned by Microsoft for quite some time. Any sort of independence was merely symbolic. Besides, it's not like they weren't using GitHub to train AI for Copilot before the GitHub CEO left.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I don't know, but I like it.

    The less power we give to Micro$oft, the better.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    How many megabytes of javascript does github load? Why is that needed, and where all of the changes in the recent years (react rewrite for example) an improvement? Related discussion: https://lobste.rs/s/5qq2k2/why_is_github_ui_getting_so_much_slower https://yoyo-code.com/why-is-github-ui-getting-so-much-slower/

    For federated alternatives, there is radicle I guess: https://radicle.xyz/

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