https://radicle.xyz/ is not fediverse, but P2P
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I run my own Gitea instance at https://git.benetou.fr/ but I admit didn't look much at the federated aspect, yet.
Sadly I just checked https://forum.gitea.com/c/federation/10 and despite few attempts, e.g. https://nlnet.nl/project/Gitea/ and eventually potentially upstreaming via forgejo https://forgejo.org/2023-01-10-answering-forgejo-federation-questions/#will-gitea-also-gain-federation that does not seem to be usable right now.
I'm checking https://forgefed.org/ which I learned about via checking federation on Gitea and it looks nice, in theory, but until I see an actual list of instances federated together I'll just applaud the effort from afar.
codeberg is such an obvious choice, i have no idea why people don't immediately switch from GitHub
Because not everyone works on free software (read their FAQ)
they also have a limit of 100 repos, so I can't even migrate everything I have on github
Check out Forgejo, it's what codeberg uses as far as im aware. They're the only ones even attempting to put the fediverse into git
NOTE: URLs written in italics are unofficial/self-hosted instances of their respective version control systems.
- Forgejo (https://codeberg.org/) and Gitea (https://tildegit.org/) are great.
- sourcehut (https://sr.ht/) is fantastic, and also offers Mercurial hosting.
- source.community (gemini://source.community) is interesting.
- Fossil (https://code.rosaelefanten.org/) is also interesting, and doesn't use Git.
- Savannah (https://savannah.nongnu.org/) is the version control system used by the FSF and the GNU project. Uses CVS and Git, with ViewVC and cgit frontends. You must make regular commits, otherwise your account may be pruned.
Selfhosted Gitea ?
Don't know if GitLab counts as alternative (it has no bullshit according to Brave Shields, and AFAIK they're independent)
Brave has already had several leaks and a history of selling data, that’s why I switched to LibreWolf.
Yes, git.
Probably codeberg, or gitea instance somewhere
Same as in the other thread, I'm going to recommend fossil-scm.org
Works for me.
Fossil requires its own download client (not git) and like the other guy said Forgejo only accepts certain licenses, Gitea is Google which is obviously a no-go.
Gogs abandoned, Kallithea abandoned.
Realistically that leaves GitBucket https://github.com/gitbucket/gitbucket and Tuleap https://docs.tuleap.org/install.html
Gitea is Google which is obviously a no-go.
Please explain how "Gitea is Google"
Can’t edit. Gogs I’m happy to see did receive security fixes 3 months ago. Also Gitea being a no-go…get it, no-go…hahah.
It is good and proper to hate Google services.