I am self hosting forgejo on my synology NAS. It is easier than it looks. Synology provides me access from the internet so I do not need static IP address. It took me at most 20 minutes to write (copy paste) docker compose file to make it run and another hour to import repositories from github and gitlab. Only maintenance I do is update to new version once a while which takes about 5 minutes. You can set it up to sync repositories back to code forges.
If you do not have a lot of users you can easily set it up too.
Codeberg and Gitlab exist though. The problem is the inertia. Tons of repositories in GitHub from way before MS acquired them, which makes most people use GitHub, which makes most software projects choose GitHub.
Heck, GH Stars are used as a vanity metric for a lot of projects.
Codeberg only serves a small subset of what Github does.
Pitching them as a no-brain replacement and advising people to move all their personal repos over is abusive towards Codeberg.
For community-facing FLOSS it is good. For other uses you need to look elsewhere. Forgejo, which is what Codeberg ises, is easy to self-host and other providers exist.
I am self hosting forgejo on my synology NAS. It is easier than it looks. Synology provides me access from the internet so I do not need static IP address. It took me at most 20 minutes to write (copy paste) docker compose file to make it run and another hour to import repositories from github and gitlab. Only maintenance I do is update to new version once a while which takes about 5 minutes. You can set it up to sync repositories back to code forges.
If you do not have a lot of users you can easily set it up too.
Codeberg and Gitlab exist though. The problem is the inertia. Tons of repositories in GitHub from way before MS acquired them, which makes most people use GitHub, which makes most software projects choose GitHub.
Heck, GH Stars are used as a vanity metric for a lot of projects.
> Codeberg and Gitlab exist though.
Soooo...
Let me preface this by saying this is an old (so things are different) anecdote (which is not the singular of data), but...
a) I had never heard of codeberg.
b) My company used an on-prem gitlab instance, and it sucked donkey dicks.
For example, the equivalent of just putting a statically generated site into github pages required running a fucking production pipe.
You should make the easy things easy and the hard things possible. Making the easy things hard is an immediate red flag.
> The problem is the inertia.
Oh, don't worry about that. Github is working diligently to fix that problem. The question is, are the alternatives worthwhile?
You sound pleasant.
Codeberg only serves a small subset of what Github does.
Pitching them as a no-brain replacement and advising people to move all their personal repos over is abusive towards Codeberg.
For community-facing FLOSS it is good. For other uses you need to look elsewhere. Forgejo, which is what Codeberg ises, is easy to self-host and other providers exist.
https://sr.ht is more open and has paid options.
I’m actively working on a free and open source alternative Frontend for Forgejo that I self host called Joui
Hosting forgejo on a cheap Hetzner server is the best and easiest trick that happened in my work life these last years !