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Right - I see the other topic has been locked / author hasn't returned to follow community rules.

Here's the original topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003386

and a measured (IMHO) response to it. (BTW, do your self a favour and change tabs with that site open :)

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg/

It's a tough spot, Codeberg has found themselves in and I wish them luck. But beyond that, this is (yet) another reminder that in 2026, if you don't self host it, the cloud is just someone else computer

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[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 54 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Frankly, I don't see where the whole big deal of this story is.

People who don't like codeberg can just go somewhere else (even back to github) and/or found/support an alternative that better suits their needs.

It's not like the world needs to have one git hosting service to rule them all, it's not like there must be free ones (entitled much?), and it's not like whatever service happens to be the new "cool" one must be neutral as to what they host.

BTW, although to my knowledge their policy is not enforced super-strictly, codeberg has never been neutral in this regard — see 1 and 2

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

People who don’t like codeberg can just go somewhere else

And Codeberg literally makes it easier for them, as you can just download or git clone Forgejo directly from them! When have we ever seen a breakup so amicable.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

People who don’t like codeberg can just go somewhere else (even back to github) and/or found/support an alternative that better suits their needs.

searches

https://gitgud.io/ provides free GitLab hosting for open source projects.

https://gitlab.com/ has a free tier for personal/open source stuff, though looks like it has a 5 user limit on said free tier.

Gitea can be self-hosted. It doesn't look like they provide free hosting themselves, though, just paid. Apparently it's considerably less resource-intensive to host than GitLab.

GNU Savannah is available if one is writing projects under a specific set of licenses (the GPL family).

[–] nagaram@piefed.social 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I use Forgejo which is either forked from or built on Gitea

Super easy to set up it was a docker container and a cloudflared tunnel.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How do you back up your git repos? Do you do that automatically through Forgejo or do you count on other members having the git repo updated?

Sorry for the off tangent question!

[–] nagaram@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

I didn't, I hadn't written code before that.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

People who don’t like codeberg can just go somewhere else

Didn't down vote ya but.....This. This is what I've been saying for forever.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz -4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I agree, but I believe that there must be free git hosting and archiving for code projects.

[–] wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 days ago

What's stopping you from doing it yourself? Be the change you want to see.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sure, but that does not make it mandatorily Codeberg's mission.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sure, but I didn't say that.