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18.12.2025 - Moved from Github to Codeberg

Moved from Github to Codeberg

unplug trump

I have finally moved all my opensource projects from github to codeberg.

There are multiple reasons:

Privacy Protection

Today Github is owned by Microsoft and as such prone to US government overreach. The US government could order Microsoft to reveal data of their customers and they happily comply, wether lawful or not.

Trump Dictatorship

I am trying to reduce my usage of US products and services as much as I can, because I don’t want to support a dictatorship. Although I could live with some services or products from such states, the US case is a special one because of Trump’s open hostility towards the EU, our freedoms, our rights, our laws and our way to live in general.

Also big IT corporations like Amazon, Microsoft or Google comply willingly with the Trump regime, their owners even donate huge amounts of money to Trump and his supporters. They are accomplice or partners in crime with the Trump regime and the coming dictatorship. I don’t want to use services made by criminals.

Generative AI

The current “AI” bubble affects most corporations, Microsoft and thus Github included. They ignore copyrights of authors, artists and scientists, they really don’t give a shit about the rights of anyone, they don’t give a shit about the environment which they destroy with their incredible hunger for energy.

And although there might be some useful uses of LLMs, in most cases it’s just being used for bullshit, to further enshittificate already bad services, to siphon more data and to to spy on us. “AI” is a fascistic enterprise.

Github rolls their own incarnation of this shit: CoPilot. It ingests the sourcecode of hundreds of thousands developers, ignores their license terms and produces scrap code, which even doesn’t work in most cases. Projects start to develop “AI Policies” to fight the flood of nonsense pull requests by “AI Coders” (i.e. bots).

I don’t want CoPilot to ingest my code and spit out code snippets for those morons using it without any hint to the GPL or my authorship. This is not the way opensource is supposed to work!

Moved

So, I moved to codeberg. In addition I am also a supporting member of the Codeberg e.V.

My repositories on github still exist and will remain there for a while so that users are still able to find them there. Each repo contains a deprecation warning pointing to codeberg and the repos are archived. I created a branch which only contains the README in every repo which is now the default branch on github. The main branch containing the actual code still exists, but will be removed later as well.