Why You Should Ditch GitHub for Your Open Source Project

This article exposes the problematic aspects of using GitHub, a Microsoft-owned platform. It highlights issues such as limited user control, a centralized model, telemetry tracking, and vendor lock-in through features like GitHub Actions and Copilot. More critically, it details Microsoft's controversial partnerships with the US government and the Israeli military, including providing cloud services to ICE and AI technology to the Israeli Defense Forces, leading to internal employee protests. The author advocates for migrating open source projects to self-hosted solutions like Forgejo or Sourcehut to preserve the spirit and independence of open source.