Is there something wrong with Gitlab?
Not inherently—GitLab works fine, but it’s corporate-owned, collects some data, and isn’t fully decentralized. If your goal is privacy, open source, and independence from Big Tech, that’s why people look for alternatives like Gitea, Forgejo, or federated solutions.
Me: Imagine reddit for left wing, privacy obsessed, Linux nerds.
Anyone else: I really don’t want to.
/scene
lmao
Got my first ad (or at least, the first I noticed) after submitting this. How ironic
lol
Not just storage costs — mainly for privacy, avoiding Big Tech control, and having an open-source, decentralized alternative where I’m not tracked or subjected to ads.
All software should be open source.
Yeah!
Classic: modern policies, prehistoric execution.
I agree there are cases where sensitivity matters, like national security or systems tied to critical infrastructure. But when it comes to publicly funded software developed specifically for government use, the default should be open by principle. Exceptions can exist, but they must be justified — not the other way around. With COTS products like Microsoft Office, it’s different because the government is just a customer, not the owner of the development.
Absolutely!
I self-host forgejo, it’s one of the easiest systems I self-host.
But which features other than a plain git repo are you looking for? That will mostly determine your options. There are tons of git repos, and even just a plain git repo on a server with an ssh tunnel is enough if you don’t need anything beyond that.
My main goal is to stay independent from big tech and have full control over my data, but I’m still new to programming (2/8 in Software Engineering).
You probably should not use number of users or amount of content as the deciding factor (that leads to centralization, remember the entire point of federation is to DE-centralize), that said…
The instance list does allow sorting by number of users or number of videos, phijkchu.com has the most users and Videovortex has the most videos.
Wow, you made me think! P.S.: I’m still new here on the Fediverse.
I’m not a git expert. If we Primarily use private repos and use gitea why would this be good ? I presume it’s only good for public repos right?
Even with private repos, it can be useful for backups, CI/CD, or local mirrors. If you just care about public exposure, then yes, it’s mainly for public repos.
I don’t. It’s bad enough that people spend too much time on social media. Why the fuck would i introduce another one?
I’m practically only here because rif died. Its not because it’s enjoyable. I open the app to maybe see one good post among the thousands and thousands of “same”-posts.
You made me think.
Yes, codeberg, and it’s going to be decentralized soon when forgejo implements federation
amazing!
Lmao, exactly me!
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interesting man, i’ll try!
OMG, I didn’t know this site, thanks man!
“Its not filled with wankers and bots yet though so its got that going for it.”
hahaha I use Arch, btw
Before anything, I would check if there is an active community they are actually interested in, and give them that. Otherwise, there’s really not much reason why they should use it. It would be like gifting someone a box full of manga to someone who is not interested in Japanese stuff. I’m saying this because a lot of people including OP seems to think decentralisation/federation/FOSSness are some major selling points to a lot of people, but it really isn’t. Content usually is.
It even applies to you too. If an instance banned you for mentioning Linux or FOSS, you wouldn’t really care that they were running open-source Lemmy, you would ditch that instance. If that happened with every instance, you wouldn’t use Lemmy at all.
Now you made me think man!
Yes, the main reason I’d want federation is for public access and decentralization. For personal or small-team use, running it privately is enough.