Goodbye GitHub

As an IT person when talking about version control it's a no brainer today, just use Git! But Git alone is not enough, the code should be stored somewhere that allows all the developers contributing to a project easy access to write code and for this reason different Git providers have appeared over the years but, one was able to raise above the others, especially in the open-source community: GitHub.

Honestly I don't even know why or how but it's not even the theme of this piece instead, as the title suggests something has changed lately to the point the best decision was not to use it anymore, at least for my off work projects.

GitHub was strong and took the chance to reach for the stars allowing Microsoft to step in and acquire the company, a great opportunity leading to some upgrades like  unlimited free private repositories. Wait what? Unlimited free repositories, so if it's free you are the product is how they say right? I don't want to be catastrophic but just think about copilot, the best chance is that all the code was able to generate value so that a new product was born. This is not the only thing to consider but for me it's already enough, I'm fed up of giving away free data to companies but regardless of the fact that it's impossible not to give any kind of data nowadays it's nice to limit the amount of data gifted. 

I really didn't question to move away from GitHub before the last November, in my head it was not even a thing to think about when starting a new project, public or private, just start a new GitHub repository and share it with your friends or colleagues until the first big news. The GitHub CEO decided to step down and just move forward to a new adventure, which might be great for him but leaves a big uncertainty ahead and just like a domino effect something happened after that, the Zig project published an article about them migrating to a new Git provider. Reading the article, which I higly recomend, I discovered many things I didn't even know about and intrigued by it I wanted to give a shot to Codeberg, as the home page suggests it's a non-profit organization with a clear privacy policy where the first point is "We do not want to need your data".

In conclusion you can now find me here come say hi and, if you want, let's connect on there! 

Stay safe :)