Why Codeberg?

As I have gotten back into publishing open source code, the age-old question arose: where do I host the source code?

My original solution was GitHub. I moved away from it several years ago, because I felt that it was far too powerful of an entity, especially as a subsidiary of Microsoft. They have had outage issues and claiming CoPilot wrote all the things. On top of that, I keep reporting malware and they keep not doing anything about it. So, I am not about to hand over more stuff to them if I can avoid it.

For a while, I was using GitLab. They weren’t bad, but they still worried me with some of their decisions.

Now? I am using Codeberg. I like their non-profit status. Many people will appreciate that they are based in Europe, or that their primary social media presence is on Mastodon. I do not have very sophisticated needs from a source repository, and they cover those needs nicely. I do worry a bit about what happens if they get slammed with a DDoS or other attacks, but otherwise, I feel better about using them than I do using their huge competitors.