Right - I see the other topic has been locked / author hasn’t returned to follow community rules.

Here’s the original topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003386

and a measured (IMHO) response to it. (BTW, do your self a favour and change tabs with that site open :)

https://マリウス.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg/

It’s a tough spot, Codeberg has found themselves in and I wish them luck. But beyond that, this is (yet) another reminder that in 2026, if you don’t self host it, the cloud is just someone else computer

  • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    8 hours ago

    Frankly, I don’t see where the whole big deal of this story is.

    People who don’t like codeberg can just go somewhere else (even back to github) and/or found/support an alternative that better suits their needs.

    It’s not like the world needs to have one git hosting service to rule them all, it’s not like there must be free ones (entitled much?), and it’s not like whatever service happens to be the new “cool” one must be neutral as to what they host.

    BTW, although to my knowledge their policy is not enforced super-strictly, codeberg has never been neutral in this regard — see 1 and 2

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      People who don’t like codeberg can just go somewhere else

      Didn’t down vote ya but…This. This is what I’ve been saying for forever.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      7·
      6 hours ago

      People who don’t like codeberg can just go somewhere else (even back to github) and/or found/support an alternative that better suits their needs.

      searches

      https://gitgud.io/ provides free GitLab hosting for open source projects.

      https://gitlab.com/ has a free tier for personal/open source stuff, though looks like it has a 5 user limit on said free tier.

      Gitea can be self-hosted. It doesn’t look like they provide free hosting themselves, though, just paid. Apparently it’s considerably less resource-intensive to host than GitLab.

      GNU Savannah is available if one is writing projects under a specific set of licenses (the GPL family).

      • nagaram@piefed.socialEnglish
        10·
        5 hours ago

        I use Forgejo which is either forked from or built on Gitea

        Super easy to set up it was a docker container and a cloudflared tunnel.

    • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      35·
      5 hours ago

      I agree, but I believe that there must be free git hosting and archiving for code projects.