I Regret Migrating to Codeberg

My primary reason for leaving GitHub was not about a single feature or a single outage, but about the “enshittification” of the platform under Microsoft’s ownership. The web interface got rewritten into a sluggish pile of JavaScript that either broke things which used to just work, or made them so horribly slow that using them became a PITA. Beyond the technical decay GitHub had turned into de facto “public infrastructure” in much the same way that WhatsApp has, hosting the source code of a very large share of the world’s software and, through that, giving Microsoft a degree of leverage and surveillance over everyone’s projects, and by extension everyone’s digital lives, that no single company should hold. On top of that, stories about legitimate developers losing their accounts due to arbitrary bans by Microsoft only reinforced the feeling that it would be a good idea to at least have a backup somewhere else. Codeberg looked like a viable alternative. It offered free and open-source…