Codeberg's recent move to ban LLM-generated projects, along with their ongoing efforts to keep AI companies from scraping their site has inspired me to start sharing my code again. I've been using Codeberg for years, but about a year ago I mostly stopped, deleted all my repos from Github and switched to using a private, on-prem server to host my code. During this time I've debated whether or not I want to continue to open-source my work at all, and the whole thing has been very depressing.
But seeing a company like Codeberg make a decisive move like this, and the outrage from the botlickers in response has me feeling a lot better about returning my work to somewhere public. I know this isn't a solution, but I don't need perfection, I just need to feel like I'm not alone in this fight against the machines.
I already have a handful of public repos on Codeberg, but over the next few months I'll be slowly bringing another 200 or so back online. I'm really excited to engage more with the site as well and perhaps even do some actual collaborating.
If you have a Codeberg account I'd love to check-out your work and band-together to show the world that people who like programming still exist and want to work together.
Jason J. Gullickson, 2026