Bye, Bye GitHub

The author recounts leaving GitHub after years of paid use, motivated by multiple frustrations. First, they argue GitHub has become unstable despite having the best engineers and LLMs, contrasting it with legacy software like a 2004 game that shipped on CDs and worked for years without patches. They also object to GitHub's profitability and its practices around using user code to train AI, rejecting the legal defense of fair use and accusing courts of bias in an international AI race.

The author then describes their concrete actions: moving all private repositories to a self-hosted Forgejo instance, canceling their GitHub subscription including Copilot, and planning to expand other homelab services. They note they keep some unused public repos on GitHub because their homelab is not exposed to the internet due to trust issues.

The core message is a warning against trusting big tech companies with privacy or security, encouraging readers to educate themselves on security topics and follow independent bloggers rather than company-aligned developers. The author frames the post as self-criticism for having relied on GitHub for so long, ending with a blunt farewell to GitHub.