I think sometimes people forget that one of the main features of Git is that it's decentralized. You don't need Github; just push your repo to a different remote.

Everyone that clones the repo (usually) has a full copy of it, including all history, and theoretically you can clone the repo directly from their copy. Of course, that's often not practical, which is how we ended up with these centralized services.

The main issue with losing a Github repo is the auxiliary non-Git-powered features of Github, like issue tracking.

and Won't Explain Why

They've made it pretty clear. They're banning porn because being a dumbass puritan is all the rage nowadays (and they probably want to avoid accidentally training their precious AI on porn). Seems like it's not well automated, though. Quite a few NSFW repos are still up. Probably requires manual user reports or some such.

Sweet. I hope forgejo et al become more popular.

I strongly encourage Microsoft to keep making all their products worse while destroying user trust. It's a brilliant strategy that can make the world a better place.

They said they thought they were within Github’s acceptable use guidelines; even though they make mods for hentai games and things like interactive vibrator plugins, they took care to not host anything explicit directly in their repositories.

A developer who goes by Sauceke, who Github suspended in mid-November without explanation, said their open-source adult toy mod users are now encountering broken links or simply can’t find any of their work.

Hmm. Buttplug.io's GitHub repositories are still up, and I'd think that that'd be rather-more-prominent if the issue is sex toy code.

It's owned by Microsoft and they're doing this with all their products at this point.

Github is Microsoft, that's why.

So that's why Australia initially included GitHub, on the list of "social-media" platforms to be banned under 16?

Leave the sinking ship if you don't want a bad experience.

Everyone is fleeing GitHub anyway.

My gut says that they are taking a shortcut to clean up copilot.

I'm a bit sad, now copilot won't learn dirty tricks, foul mouth code comments and all that to parrot for vibe coders living in VSCode

Does the developers age matter?

/s

The tighter they squeeze

That's what you get for hosting your shit on GitHub