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The GitHub Monoculture: Why It’s Time to Decentralize Your Code


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GitHub is facing major uptime and security issues while forcing AI on developers. Here are the best decentralized and local-first alternatives for your code.
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GitHub's increasing unreliability, aggressive AI data scraping, and vendor lock-in are pushing the industry toward a crisis in code sovereignty. This article explores the major issues plaguing the platform—from critical outages to automated account bans—and highlights resilient, decentralized alternatives like SourceHut, Gitea, Codeberg, and Radicle to help you reclaim control of your infrastructure.

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