I moved my AI project off GitHub to Codeberg — here's what happened

I moved my AI project off GitHub to Codeberg — here's what happened This week, Codeberg hit the front page of Hacker News with 496 points and 250 comments. Developers are migrating away from GitHub. The conversation reminded me of a decision I made last year when I built SimplyLouie — and why I try to reduce dependency on Big Tech platforms wherever I can. The GitHub dependency problem Most developers don't think about platform risk until it bites them. GitHub is owned by Microsoft. Your code is on their servers, under their terms, with their AI training policies. I'm not anti-Microsoft. But I am pro-independence. When you're building something small and independent — a $2/month AI tool, a side project, anything — platform risk is real. You've seen it happen: OpenAI killed Sora with no warning LiteLLM got supply-chain attacked through a compromised dependency GitHub Copilot started training on your private code (unless you opt out) The pattern is: Big Tech gives you something free, the