If you’re reading this, you’ve found me over on Codeberg! I’ve been wanting to start shifting projects over to Codeberg for a while now, and have been putting it off for various reasons. As of, well now, I’ve moved over - it’s always fun to play with new tools, and I’m pretty excited about Codeberg.

I should probably acknowledge that it’s at least in some part a move away from github. I don’t have a huge problem with the site, and it’ll continue being a place that a bunch of exciting open source stuff happen for years and years. But it’s hard to ignore its increasingly hostile, and occasianally exploitative position against open-source software and its community.¹

Codeberg’s been catching my eye a lot recently as an organisation with goals that are a lot more aligned with my own. It’s set up with the express purpose of supporting open source code and is designed as a non-profit.

The main thing holding me back has been users, since Codeberg clearly doesn’t have the same level of users as Github. If I’m honest though, most of my projects don’t have the level of contributors as something like Pandas, Numpy or Rust. I’m excited whenever I get the occasional patch that comes through from a user, but these are few and far between that I can (at least for now) easily manage this with mirroring a repo over to github.

I use Mastodon too, and despite having a much smaller userbase than something like Twitter/Reddit/etc it’s a lot nicer a place to hang out - a platform might have a gajillion users, but I can’t really communicate with that many, so I don’t get the benefit.

I guess this is experiment, I’m excited to see how it goes.