cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45047387
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I’m kinda disgusted with Microsoft and Github has been declining into an AI-Centric hellhole, to the point my recommendations are almost exclusively AI related… And let’s not forget, the new Copilot Training enabled by default (which honestly, how do you get rid of this thing, VSCode also feels intrusive with AI-First bullshittery)
I’ve been wondering about moving to Gitlab but… “Finally, AI for the entire software lifecycle.” is literally plastered in the landing page. So… that feels like a no-go.
Codeberg is very decent, it’s based on Forgejo so ActivityPub is also a thing (but is cross-instance contributions possible?) but it’s exclusive for Source-Available and Free Projects, which, by all means, totally fine! Half of my “active” projects are for free, and are open source (does that make them FOSS even though I’m basically the only dev?)
And last but not least, Forgejo and Gitlab themselves are self-hostable, but…how expensive (price and storage) would it be to self host a Git Forge??
And maybe I’m being narrow-sighted… For FOSS projects in Github, sadly I’ll have no choice but to contribute there, if that’s the only place where the project resides, same for Gitlab, and Codeberg* (unless cross-instance contrib is a thing)
For now, I’m thinking of moving FOSS/OSS projects to Codeberg, but for personal projects? What are some good options?
Codeberg or GitLab.
Already do; Codeberg is great.
I have been using self hosted Gitea for a while now (few years) with 0 regrets.
Locally I run forgejo. Anything I want available to me away from home, Codeberg now. Before I would use Gitlab because I’ve used that a lot more than Github since like 2014
Selfhosting for personal projects is cheap. I’d choose Forgejo because it not so resource hungry as GitLab.
For my personal projects (all FOSS) I use Codeberg and mirror them to hosted GtiLab and GitHub.
sourcehut, codeberg or self-hosting (cgit, forgejo, gitea, which ever suits your needs)
I’ve exclusively been using gitlab.com and self hosted gitlab ce for years. So that would be my choice.
Codeberg.
If you actually read his message you can see he is interested in hosting projects that aren’t open source.
I use Codeberg for public stuff. I also run a self hosted forgejo on coolify on a Hetzner cloud instance but realistically that’s overkill.
CodeBerg
I’m not a programmer, but I have my dotfiles and bash scripts I like to keep in private repos. I just moved my dotfiles over to Codeberg, gonna do my scripts here soon…
But been relatively painless. I can see how bigger and public projects will take some coordination and planning but…it’s probably worth it?
Codeberg has been fun and simple to use, but again, I’m just a hobbyist.
I self-host forgejo on a spare machine in my home. I also set up automatic encrypted backup using Restic on Backblaze (but any S3 compatible host will work). It might not be a perfect backup strategy, but it’s good enough for me, and perfectly manageable with my limited skills. Using wireguard, I can easily access it from outside my home. I also get much better uptime than Github lol
Importantly, I do NOT share this with anyone. It’s purely for my own private development and personal projects (I have a ton of these). Even when contributing to something on github, I work in a mirror on my private forgejo, and only push to github to create the PR when it’s ready.
Any open source projects I’ve released (I only have a few) go on Codeberg, but I still have a lot of projects I contribute to and rely on that are on Github. That’s really the hard part: getting other people to migrate to something else.
Seems weird nobody even mentioned Bitbucket
Is it really weird? Bitbucket is owned by Atlassian.
It’s weird to me since it exists and it works but there’s not even something like “there’s Bitbucket but, you know, yuck”.
Maybe I missed a requirement that it be open source? If so, then I’d fully agree with you - not weird at all.
It works. As long as it’s not a Thursday. Or any other day with a 5% chance or so.
Self-hosted gitea. Free, runs on a potato, built-in actions support, optional wiki and package hosting, etc.
