Codeberg is a free/nonprofit hosted instance of Forgeo. Forgeo is a fork of Gitea created by Codeberg about a year ago when the governance of Gitea changed suddenly.

You can selfhost either Forgeo or Gitea.

There are other hosted instances of forgeo and gitea also available.

Gitlab is a hosted instance if gitlab.

You can also self host gitlab.

I assume there are other hosted instances of gitlab tho i cant think of any off the top of my head.

[–] deeznutz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is there a reason I shouldn't use gitea locally?

[–] crank@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Uh well idk you personally so hard to say.

For me i like the remotely hosted ones.

Lots of other people run gitea locally.

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's the point of a local git server? If you're after that why not just use a regular Git repo?

[–] deeznutz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Easier ci/cd integration and viewing diffs from my phone on the toilet. Nothing I can't do with regular git, it would just take more effort.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense, though GitLab very much doesn't require self-hosting

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I know, but most people are lazy these days (and self-hosting stuff in the EU has become a legal battle against every week's new rules).

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think you understand what I mean. It has its “main instance” which most people use. It’s just open source so you have the option of self hosting.

[–] tux0r@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

I know, but most people won’t. :-)

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I was on GitLab for a time (and still keep the account for following stuff and maybe contributions), but felt it wasn't as free and community focused as I would have liked to, so I decided to move away and went to Gitea (the hosted instance), shortly after I discovered Codeberg which aligns with my ideals even more, so I went to try it and it stuck.
The UI isn't that bad in my opinion and it's more responsive than GitLab's, so I appreciate it.
Not to say that it's the perfect platform of course, at least not yet, I miss GitLab for the easy actions/CI and deployment of pages, but I'm hoping that Forgejo actions will land soon enough and make things better.

Note: recently I found out a userstyle that tries to modernize the UI by following a Material You-like interface called Gitea Modern, don't know if it's still holding up since it's been archived

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Really gitlab went down the niche client path and no longer is a non Microsoft alternative? Sadge, at least I know about codeberg now.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 11 months ago

No no, don't get me wrong, it very much still is, it's really great for what it is, but for my own purposes it's a bit too much maybe, and I never thought to come back also because I was, and still am, anticipating federation on Gitea/Forgejo, I didn't expect that GitLab would add that in as well, so now that'll be a moot point when the relevant merge requests do land

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

What does that mean

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

It’s not bad per se, but it leaves a lot to be desired and I think it’s about as responsive as GitLab.