Why some developers are leaving GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosted alternatives
The article explores the growing trend of developers moving away from GitHub toward alternatives like Codeberg and self-hosted solutions. Despite GitHub's massive scale (600M+ repos, nearly 1B commits in 2025), concerns about centralization, Microsoft ownership, privacy, and platform dependency are driving a decentralized migration. The piece examines motivations, trade-offs, and the broader philosophical shift toward open-source infrastructure that aligns more closely with the original ethos of distributed development.
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By many measures, GitHub is as popular as ever. One new user joins every second, the service hosts over 600 million repositories, and nearly one billion commits were made in 2025.
It's supposed to be a decentralized service, after all...
The move toward Codeberg and self-hosting reflects a deeper philosophical shift in how developers think about infrastructure and control.
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