---
title: "Ditching GitHub"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/ditching-github-vdjgxgl6t
source_url: https://lonami.dev/blog/ditching-github
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2026-04-29T06:04:47.190Z
updated: 2026-04-29T06:05:39.944Z
tags: ["github"]
reading_time: 16
upvotes: 146
comments: 20
language: en
---

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# Ditching GitHub

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 16 min read · 146 upvotes · 20 comments

## Summary

A developer who has maintained the Telethon Python library since 2014 shares their frustrations with GitHub's aggressive AI integration and the broader AI hype cycle. They announce migrating their projects to Codeberg, a non-profit code forge, citing GitHub's declining quality, AI crawler abuse of self-hosted servers, LLM-generated code slop flooding open source projects, and concerns about AI's environmental, social, and labor impacts. The author stops short of fully leaving GitHub due to link-rot concerns and the social capital of 12,000 stars, but advocates for owning your code and hardware.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@kavinda1995** · 13 upvotes

> Ghostty is also leaving github
> [https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github](https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github)

**@mavros\_lykos** · 2 upvotes

> Cobeberg, I love it !

**@fralps** · 2 upvotes

> What are the best alternatives?

**@rafaelnacle** · 2 upvotes

> As I said in ghostty post, we should be protesting for a change, not changing.

**@o251298** · 1 upvotes

> Interesting how many more major players would need to leave GitHub before real changes start happening 🤔

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