[aulisius]

Coincidentally, I've been mulling the same idea for a week now. A self-hostable source forge + registry to serve artifacts would be amazing.

I think the only thing you'd lose is the 'social' aspects of GitHub, but I believe that can be made up with a combination of rss feeds (?), ActivityPub etc.

[godber]

I think we've been thinking similarly. Decentralization will have it's costs. I've been thinking Opt-In centralized search for personal repos, maybe as a gitea (or other self hosted options) plug-in. But as you suggest, maybe existing features can be leveraged to prove the social/discoverability.