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by layer8 5 days ago
What are these plentiful alternatives? SourceHut also comes with “personal baggage”.
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Just host your own git server, it's an afternoon project. Use other forges as mirrors.
Forgejo is pretty crazy easy to setup if you have a server with some storage already. It can be set to lock out people by default
I have been self-hosting Gitea since long before Forgejo existed, but I understood the parent to be talking about third-party hosting with a FOSS community around it.
No one's guaranteed to third-party hosting or communities. The software is there. Host it.

If no third-party or community wants to take you in, then I suppose you're going to have to start one for like-minded people. If there aren't any, then I suppose you've lost the marketplace of ideas.

Isn't that how this is supposed to work?

Gitea is china-ware that doesn’t share values with most FOSS.
if you have ssh access to a server, setup is as easy as

    ssh user@host
    mkdir myproject
    git init --bare myproject
Done.

The remote URL is user@host:myproject (relative to user home dir) or user@host:/home/user/myproject (absolute path)

That works for private repositories, but public facing ones require a little more than that.

  docker run data.forgejo.org/forgejo/runner:12 forgejo-runner
I thought this was supposed to be a site for hackers? Apply some Hacker Nature to the problem.
I have been self-hosting Gitea since long before Forgejo existed, but I understood the parent to be talking about third-party hosting with a FOSS community around it.
There is Radicle for completely distributed hosting.
It really is a shame Drew is so opinionated and dogmatic.

I like most of his work, but his politics make Source Hut too shaky of a foundation to build on.

Amuses me that Codeberg and Sourcehut have the same naming scheme. What's next - SLoCbarn? Header Haven? Function City?
Repohaus
ssh server git init --bare repo.git && git clone server:repo.git