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If not Github, where would you host your projects? (lemmy.world)

submitted 23 hours ago by Solrac@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45047387

Title...

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?

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[–] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Some alternative self-hosting options (besides full-fledged "forges"):

If you don't need issues and stuff, you could just use git and back it up (by copying or cloning/updating to some other machine).

You could deploy soft-serve, which is a self-contained git/ssh server with cool cli (beware: it's not super performant on large repos, so don't host a clone of the linux kernel on it). Since you'll use it via ssh, you don't have to bother with https, certificates, reverse proxies and stuff.

If you are willing to put some effort into it, the (imho) coolest option would be to use radicle, which is a p2p forge (beware: documentation is not great, and - even if the "core" is solid - the cli tools are very much beta still).

[–] strlcpy@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I went with the simplest self-hosting I could think of for my private repos:

ssh my-server 'git init --bare git/foo.git'
git clone my-server:git/foo.git

You don't get a web UI or anything but that's OK for me, I just want the repo.