Bye, Bye GitHub

An author who has used GitHub since 2012 has migrated all their private repositories to a self-hosted Forgejo instance, citing concerns about platform instability, ethical issues with GitHub's use of user code to train AI, and broader distrust of large tech companies regarding privacy and security. The author argues that the software industry has regressed in reliability compared to the 2000s, when software was released in a stable, finished state, and calls for users to be more skeptical of big tech companies rather than passively accepting their terms.