Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode

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I get that it's open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

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I don't use VSCode for the exact reason. I used VSCodium but switched to Neovim. I see this problem more with GitHub (also owned by Microsoft). I was not able to get off GitHub yet, but I'm planning to switch to Codeberg probably. I heard that GitLab is also closed source?

Gitlab is open source, but some features are only available in their Enterprise Edition. As the name suggests, unless you are looking for an alternative for a large company, the open source "Community" Edition is enough for all your needs.

I am also facing the same issue with Github and switching to codeberg. My first hurdle is clouflare pages not sourcing codeberg for website source, only giving options for github and gitlab

Huh. Hadn't heard of codeberg. They look pretty good.

codeberg is great! the community there seems to be interested in growing the platform and developing tools as useful as those on GitLab/GitHub.