1. Decentralized, federated hosting is the new direction
- “I’m really looking forward to some form of federated forking and federated pull requests, so that it doesn’t matter as much where your repository is.” – JoshTriplett
- “I’ve been mirroring my GitHub repos to my own forgejo instance for a few weeks, but am waiting for more federation before I reverse the mirrors.” – holysoles
- “GitLab has been talking about federation at least between instances of itself for 8+ years.” – mikepurvis
2. GitHub’s PR workflow and UI are increasingly frustrating
- “I use GitHub because that’s where PRs go, but I’ve never liked their PR model.” – bsimpson
- “Reviewing big pull requests on GitHub became nearly impossible – even with the simplest change view it makes you spend too much time waiting for the page to load the necessary file first.” – xvilka
- “They even have the gall to call it an improved UI for reviewing large pull requests.” – arccy
3. Cost, sustainability, and the appeal of open‑source alternatives
- “I also wonder how this all gets paid for. Does it take pockets as deep as Microsoft’s to keep npm/GitHub afloat? Will there be a free, open‑source commons on other forges?” – bsimpson
- “The reality of good competition is that competitors are built on good, cheap open source.” – positron26
- “Coincidentally, my most‑used project is on Codeberg, & is a filter list for hiding a lot of Microsoft GitHub’s social features, upsells, Copilot pushes, & so on to try to make it tolerable until more projects migrate away.” – toastal