This is bad advice to a new FLOSS project that wants to have users. Avoiding GitHub with its user base (meaning issues and discussions), search, project topics (tags), trending repository lists, etc. will make a fledgling project even less likely to gain adoption.

A better thing to suggest is to use multiple forges, including GitHub, and mirror your projects across them. This way you will have exposure and options; you won't be as tied to any one forge.

majorchord 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Hard disagree, multiple forges does not solve the problem of being unable to opt-out of AI training from your code.

	▲	satvikpendem 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If your code is in any way public, it will be trained on. That ship has already sailed.
	▲	networked 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		If that is your problem with GitHub, then I agree, you should avoid GitHub, though someone can still mirror your repository there. I assume most new FLOSS projects that want to have users don't consider it a dealbreaker.
	▲	hombre_fatal 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If your problem is with your code appearing in training data, then you cannot release your code anywhere. That link you provided only points out GitHub has integrated "create pull request with Copilot" that you can't opt out of. Since anyone can create a pull request with any agent, and probably is, that's a pretty dated complaint. Frankly not very compelling reasons to ditch the most popular forge if you value other people using/contributing to your project at all.