A brief comment on Codeberg’s new terms, and why a free-software host deciding which projects are welcome worries me more than the bans themselves. My primary reason for leaving GitHub was not about a single feature or a single outage, but about the “enshittification” of the platform under Microsoft ’s ownership. The web interface got rewritten into a sluggish pile of JavaScript that either broke things which used to just work, or made them so horribly slow that using them became a PITA . Beyond the technical decay GitHub had turned into de facto “public infrastructure” in much the same way that WhatsApp has , hosting the source code of a very large share of the world’s software and, through that, giving Microsoft a degree of leverage and surveillance over everyone’s projects, and by extension everyone’s digital lives, that no single company should hold.…