The frustration is real. But code is cheaper now.

LLMs draft in minutes. The cost of building dropped. Open source communities don't need corporate sponsorship to build alternatives—we just need people to verify and maintain what AI generates.

The proprietary wave isn't inevitable. The tools shifted to our side. The war isn't over.

For GitHub specifically: Forgejo (Codeberg), Gitea, Radicle. Self-hosted, no vendor lock-in. The alternatives exist—the question is whether people will adopt them before GitHub becomes unavoidable.

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