If you need private repositories for commercial projects (e.g. because you represent a company or are a developer that needs a space to host private freelance projects for your clients), we would highly recommend that you take a look at Forgejo. Forgejo is the Git hosting software that Codeberg runs. It is free software and relatively easy to self-host. Codeberg does not offer private hosting services.

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As someone who moved out of there before they got taken over by MS: Told you so. I mean it's been gradual but constant enshittification since then.

BTW, is it just me or is the "at" in the headline wrong?

Even sadder: people who don't know that git is not the same as github.

more than 80% of open source projects

Really? I know that many OS projects are developed elsewhere and only mirrored on github. Even the Linux kernel. But maybe github's "coproduction" isn't read only.

If you don't mind using a platform funded by crypto

I don't do any development, but my stepkid is starting to get into it, so I set up a forgejo container on my server. I had zero issues setting it up and now I'm planning on using it for my own purposes.

There's plenty alternatives.

• Sourcehut sr.ht (possibly other instances)
• Various gitlab instances, e.g. framagit.org
• not to mention git's own web ui which runs under so many domains; some of them might even be open to signups.

What's "crypto"?

And did you mean "funded by" or "founded on"?

It does: https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/first-repository/ (visibility option)

Thanks for this! I’ll check it out.

I meant exactly what i said.

"Funded by cryptography" doesn't make sense

"Funded by crypto(currency)" does make sense

Check out their FAQ section about funding. It used to be a lot more front and center but now they are understandably trying to distance the crypto(currency) from it.

Hot damn is my self-hosted Forgejo hot right now.

Self hosting for your own needs is great but you won't get the "drive by" contributions you get from shared platforms. On GitHub, Gitlab, and Codeberg, if I even see as little as a typo in the readme file, I open a pull request. I will not sign up on a hundred different git hosters for stuff like that.

So what you're saying is that we need federated git.

Huh. Gitlab just said it's too hard with their cut staffing numbers and they're not doing federation.

git is already decentralized, and federation of the forge features of Forgejo is being worked on.

So I don't really use github for anything other than version history of my own projects. I have a Raspberry Pi server, should I be hosting git on that? Can VSCode GUI integrate with it as seamlessly as it does github?

Always better to be precise!

tl;dr:

Radworks, the organization that has been financing Radicle is organized around the RAD token which is a governance token on Ethereum.

On GitHub, Gitlab, and Codeberg, if I even see as little as a typo in the readme file, I open a pull request. I will not sign up on a hundred different git hosters for stuff like that.

So we need a free & federated identity provider to sign us up as easy as 123 there.

I'm running a self hosted Gitlab instance right now but thinking of switching to Forgejo. Anyone tried both and have thoughts on each?

Codeberg has a lot of restrictions regarding private repositories and... complicated verbiage regarding what licenses they want for public repositories.

For public repositories... do you think that MS et al can't already scrape all of that?

I am all for telling MS to go fuck themselves. But it is important people actually understand what they are and aren't getting in terms of privacy and the like. It is like how people still sometimes pretend that the completely open site where just about anyone can run an instance has LESS ai scraping than a reddit.