It would be great to see a Fediverse GitHub alternative. Obviously we have plenty of self-hosted software forges around, but I’m not aware of any decentralized network solution. Allow people to host repositories on an instance, but be able to search, discuss and contribute to repositories across the entire network. That way you’d get the benefits of a large programmer community without needing to centralize to a single company or organization. Maybe this already exists and I’m unaware.
Forgejo is already working on federation https://forgefed.org/
There’s also Radicle
Would be nice to get the names of alternatives, always irked me that the biggest repo for open source projects is privately owned
It’s a little lower in the article
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Alternative Hosting Services:
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Self-Host (or join a group that self-hosts). A few options:
- Gitea
- GitLab Community Edition (note, the GitLab Enterprise Edition, which >is provided to the public on gitlab.com, is (like GitHub) >trade-secret, proprietary, vendor-lock-in software)
- SourceHut
Let’s not forget Forgejo, a fork of Gitea. Self-hosted. It’s CodeBerg’s backend.
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We really hope that codeberg and forgejo is accepted and used more!
I’m probably gonna switch from Codeberg, I just can’t rely on a service that’s down all the time or takes literal minutes to load a repo page.
Maybe it’s just me being lucky, but i have seen codeberg being down only 1 time and repositories always load as fast as github…
