cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45047387
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I’m kinda disgusted with Microsoft and Github has been declining into an AI-Centric hellhole, to the point my recommendations are almost exclusively AI related… And let’s not forget, the new Copilot Training enabled by default (which honestly, how do you get rid of this thing, VSCode also feels intrusive with AI-First bullshittery)
I’ve been wondering about moving to Gitlab but… “Finally, AI for the entire software lifecycle.” is literally plastered in the landing page. So… that feels like a no-go.
Codeberg is very decent, it’s based on Forgejo so ActivityPub is also a thing (but is cross-instance contributions possible?) but it’s exclusive for Source-Available and Free Projects, which, by all means, totally fine! Half of my “active” projects are for free, and are open source (does that make them FOSS even though I’m basically the only dev?)
And last but not least, Forgejo and Gitlab themselves are self-hostable, but…how expensive (price and storage) would it be to self host a Git Forge??
And maybe I’m being narrow-sighted… For FOSS projects in Github, sadly I’ll have no choice but to contribute there, if that’s the only place where the project resides, same for Gitlab, and Codeberg* (unless cross-instance contrib is a thing)
For now, I’m thinking of moving FOSS/OSS projects to Codeberg, but for personal projects? What are some good options?
I self-host forgejo on a spare machine in my home. I also set up automatic encrypted backup using Restic on Backblaze (but any S3 compatible host will work). It might not be a perfect backup strategy, but it’s good enough for me, and perfectly manageable with my limited skills. Using wireguard, I can easily access it from outside my home. I also get much better uptime than Github lol
Importantly, I do NOT share this with anyone. It’s purely for my own private development and personal projects (I have a ton of these). Even when contributing to something on github, I work in a mirror on my private forgejo, and only push to github to create the PR when it’s ready.
Any open source projects I’ve released (I only have a few) go on Codeberg, but I still have a lot of projects I contribute to and rely on that are on Github. That’s really the hard part: getting other people to migrate to something else.