Goodbye Microslop: Finally Moved to Codeberg | nezuteroGoodbye Microslop: Finally Moved to Codeberg<br>26 Jul, 2026<br>A while ago I realized I was after something important to my soul. I had internal conflicts because even though I was kind of living according to my values in terms of being thoughtful about the software I use, I don’t want to use products of evil corporations such as Microslop – that goes against the things I want to nurture in myself, thus in others, and consequently in this industry, as a professional (when I become one) and in all humanity.<br>We should remember that our choices have consequences, whether we can see or feel it or not. Directly or indirectly, each of us impacts this world, so the products we use impact the industry and humanity, since technology is indeed one of the most impactful engines that moves humanity forward (or backward, which is the topic for another post).<br>GitHub dominates the industry. It’s the default choice, the place where developers host their code, collaborate, and build their portfolios. For most of us, our GitHub activity graph has become a visual resume – a measure of our worth as developers. That’s a problem. Such a mere criterion, one that can easily be faked using tools such as this or this, mustn’t play any role in how we judge an engineer – and yet, unfortunately, it does.<br>It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.<br>– James Fenimore Cooper
GitHub activity is gamifiable. First, it’s trivially easy to manufacture a green contribution streak without producing meaningful work. Second, and more troubling, I’ve repeatedly encountered people who equated activity on GitHub with technical competence. A full calendar of commits apparently signals capability; an absent one suggests the opposite. This reductive view – where a developer’s value is reduced to a visual metric – overlooks everything that actually matters: code quality, problem-solving ability, and thoughtful collaboration. And yet this awful productivity culture rot impacts us all: from the absurd standard of being constantly reachable and quick to reply, to being “active” – whatever that even means (which, if you think about it twice as deeply as usual, means nothing at all). And I hate this measure of “success” – indeed, I don’t want to be a part of it. I don’t want to lose the light I was trying to reach from the very beginning of my journey, and yet it’s so easy in the era of gamified whatever and constant distractions everywhere; sometimes this is too much for me and I just escape into the woods.<br>Humans have rights, like any other living being, such as to have freedom, to be treated equally, to be respected, etc. I haven’t seen much sincere expression of any of those from Microslop; in fact, I’ve seen the opposite: trying to gain as much profit as possible in whatever way, using ethics only when they need it to fool others and prove they are right. Since GitHub had been bought by Microslop, the platform has been introducing more and more AI slop and moving to the end of the enshitification spectrum. Aside from CI/CD bugs that I haven’t experienced myself but have heard of, the things such as shitty, slow AF, ugly and buggy UI, as well as useless AI slop that they want to use even if it’s not even useful in that context – these things bother me the most.<br>Last but not least is the fact that Microslop owns GitHub. As you can probably tell, I don’t like this company – to put it lightly :). Their hypocrisy as FOSS “supporters,” along with the false image they’ve been trying to maintain, while taking snapshots of your system and analyzing every action you take on YOUR computer and OS – one that is supposed to serve you , that you bought with YOUR money – that does the opposite of serving a user: it exploits a user and tries to make money by viewing users as a source of income, using any occasion to earn more.<br>One of the reasons Windows is still popular is that Microslop is a very established corporation, with history, connections, and money behind it. And of course Windows is still the default OS for gaming, which is a closed infinite loop: the game industry aims for the industry standard, which is the industry standard because it has the most users, because most of the game industry aims to provide for this platform because it’s the industry standard… you get it. I’m not fully familiar with the reasons Windows is the most popular OS; in fact, I don’t doubt that they did a good job back then. However, that is the past, and I’m in the future relative to it now, the so-called “present,” so it does not matter what they did in...