[Zambyte]

Just host your own git server, it's an afternoon project. Use other forges as mirrors.

[gregdaniels421]

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

[layer8]

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.

[48terry]

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?

[kkkdkxbxb]

Gitea is china-ware that doesn’t share values with most FOSS.

[inigyou]

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)

[Zambyte]

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