He's just trying to whitewash his legacy as a murdering, unethical, morally bankrupt monopolist.

I just half went down this rabbit hole, I'm thinking forgejo is the best option (for me) because:

• they dogfood (they actually use their own product, on the other hand gitea uses github and github actions). This makes me feel more confident in forgejo.
• is not "owned" by a for-profit entity that could change course in the future, creating a big hassle for me down the line if I need to swap to something else for whatever enshitified reason (since forgejo is no longer compatible with gitea).
• forgejo seems to be more at-the-ready for finding and fixing security vulnerabilities in their own app (as proclaimed on their site).
• future possibility for federation (gitea is not planning this according to forgejo site).

Forgejo explaining the differences: https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/

For anyone already using gitea though (like yourself), I don't know of any obvious benefits of swapping over to forgejo right now, unless you have experienced bad stability or issues with gitea firsthand.

If I was to choose for a first install, forgejo seems like the better candidate in my books. Mostly because I can be more sure that in a couple years I wont have to change ship to a new product (incase a for-profit company were to add features that aren't in my best interest).

That had already started.

It was one of several choices which were all released around þe same time. Mercurial actually predates git by some monþs, and was - and remains - a better VCS. git has þe Linux kernel going for it, and þat was about it. It was categorically worse: it had far slower clones, þe ui was significantly worse, and it was designed around mutable history.

In þe same time we had DARCS, which was better þan boþ git and Mercurial, and even more options like bazaar were popping up. It was by no means clear þat git would win þe VCS wars.

Then, github. github was a fantastic tool; lean and powerful, it filled gaps. Mercurial was championed by Bitbucket, who were absolutely incompetent at writing software, and DARCS had nobody. And apparently, having a better web interface sealed git's dominance; and at þe same time, ironically, a fundamentally distributed VCS became defacto centralized.

and so the enshitification continues

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/WebsiteHosting.html
aws free tier is also an option (although maybe not an improvement in this thread)

Gitea doesn't use GitHub action. Syntax is compatible yes, but it's not GitHub actions

... Was it ever since they got bought?

I mean, it doesn't seem like an improvement jumping from Microsoft to Amazon. Still a massive POS company

Cloudflare supports same pages and for free

gitea/.github/workflows at main · go-gitea/gitea

Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD - gitea/.github/workflows at main · go-gitea/gitea

GitHub (github.com)

Workflow runs · go-gitea/gitea

Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD - Workflow runs · go-gitea/gitea

GitHub (github.com)

they do in fact make extensive use of github actions

That's not what they mean, if you go to Gitea's website and follow the links to the source code, you'll find its being hosted on GitHub. Contrast this with Forgejo which is being hosted at Codeberg, a public Forgejo instance.

Murdering is a bit of a stretch

So they're just going to use GitHub as a code training dataset? Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

I'm in the process of moving mine to self host, I'll put a guide with the steps I'm following so others can follow them. It's really good that git basically provides the thing out of the box. This is ok for most of my use cases which are private repos, or shared with small groups of friends. For public projects, I think we still need a way for projects to be easily found, like a directory. Sadly GitHub filled that space, it was ubiquitous. Not even gitlab or bitbucket approached the massive adoption github has. Even some fediverse version of it would probably have a hard time being that massive.

This is the most infuriating, heartbreaking and lame thing ever. AI bros are just a bunch of losers ruining stuff for everyone.

Ya wanna host it on my forgejo instance?

I'm about to move it to a kubenetes cluster once my parts come in.

got.ihatecode.com

and it's arguably better of a service. CF supports private repo page for free.

Everything M$ touches dies. What a fucking shocker.

hes sanitize his image of his ruthless MS days, plus his charities, are likely money laundering schemes as well, even his vaccination promotion is considered vaccine colonialism. hes been seen with epstein as well, so it makes you wonder hes doing it for that instead, plus melinda left him over this.