https://github.com/outfrost/outfrost
#GiveUpGitHub
https://github.com/outfrost/outfrost
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#GiveUpGitHub
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/outfrost/outfrost
- Owner: outfrost
- Created: 2020-07-21T09:46:29.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-09-17T00:42:09.000Z (9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-09-17T02:33:30.876Z (9 months ago)
- Homepage:
- Size: 9.77 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
This place might seem a little empty. That's because I've moved out.
## GitHub is harmful
Under Microsoft's ownership, GitHub no longer serves the goals it was once meant to.
Through acts such as
* [serving fascist organisations like ICE](https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0),
* enabling the [genocide in Gaza](https://data.techforpalestine.org/) by [providing the IDF with cloud and AI tools for combat, intelligence and oppression](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/23/israeli-military-gaza-war-microsoft) and by [facilitating total surveillance of Palestinian people](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud), in spite of [protest](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/19/microsoft-workers-protest-washington-israel) from [Microsoft employees](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/26/microsoft-employee-sit-in-israeli-military-ties),
* [appropriating](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/14/welcome-to-guardian-techscape-will-ai-make-centaurs-of-us-all) all kinds of [open source code](https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/148571) into the slop machine called Copilot,
* forcing the slop machine [into everyone's faces](https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/github_copilot_complaints/), dumping the slop [right back on open source maintainers](https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/), and telling developers to [_"get out of their career"_](https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8),
* making GitHub [directly subservient](https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/github_head_ankles_as_microsoft/) to the interests of slop peddling,
* and now [coercing internal teams](https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/github_deepens_ties_with_elon/) to integrate Musk's [nazi AI](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/grok-ai-praised-hitler-antisemitism-x-ntwnfb) into Copilot, ignoring [community backlash](https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/171322),
Microsoft has demonstrated that it is now entirely devoted to death and destruction, both of people's lives, and of the field of software development, and GitHub plays a significant part in that.
It would be unconscionable for me to host my projects on such a platform, when I don't have to, so I won't.
Others, such as the **Software Freedom Conservancy**, have also outlined [why and how to leave GitHub](https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/).
I may occasionally send a contribution to an open source project on GitHub - only because I care deeply about the project, _in spite of_ it being hosted here. I will try to advocate for such projects to leave GitHub as well.
#GiveUpGitHub
## Where to find my stuff
* [My website](https://outfrost.name/)
* [Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/outfrost)
* [My own git forge](https://git.outfrost.name/outfrost)