[fatchan]

Github is my push --mirror location, nothing more. Main is a popular Gitlab instance gitgud.io, and I host my own secondary mirror.

Gitlab is of course adding more AI and corpo garbage, and once they prevent disabling these "features" on community editions we'll see a fork of gitlab, probably.

The assertion that github is some bustling hub of opportunity is a strange one. At best you get people more likely to contribute because they already signed up, and a contribution from somebody not willing to sign up to another free service or simply email you an issue report is a contribution worth missing.

[clickety_clack]

Yep, the headline on the Gitlab landing page is now “Build software, not toolchains. With native AI at every step.”

I’d love to find a stripped down solution that focused on hosting code repos. I don’t think GitHub see it as their core business anymore.

[Hasnep]

I've been using Codeberg.org recently and really enjoying it, I just wish the CI situation was better, but I'll probably just host my own instead

[chaz6]

My prefernce is Forgejo

https://forgejo.org/

[skydhash]

I think it’s mostly people around the JS/Go/Rust ecosystems that tend to be vocal about GitHub being a community. For a lot of projects I couldn’t care less if it was just cgit or gitea.

It’s quite easy to setup git to send patch via email. And you can always use a pastebin to host the diff if you’re sharing ideas. Bit I guess that’s not as visible as the GitHub dashboard.