Let this be a reminder to never trust any service be it one ran by a billion dollar company, to one ran by volunteers. You will be eventually screwed over. Make backup plans, and self-host whatever you can so nothing can be taken from you. For Git forges, I personally recommend Gitea[1], or Forgejo[2] (a Gitea fork by Codeberg)

[1]: https://about.gitea.com/ [2]: https://forgejo.org/

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tbrownaw 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Self-hosting based on an external project is still a dependency on Someone Else to keep it up to date, unless you have both the time and skill to take over maintenance of that project.

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matheusmoreira 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah. Buying my own domain and migrating my email to it is one of the best things I've ever done. Setting up wireguard into my LAN permanently changed the way I used computers. Looks like it's time to get myself a VPS and just start hosting even more stuff.

Sovereign personal infrastructure is amazing. Highly recommended. Dealing with the government's rules and their politics is obnoxious enough. I'm starting to really lose patience with all of these communities.

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iamnothere 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Radicle provides self-hosting with decentralized mirrors for both added availability and DDoS resistance.

A Tor-hosted mirror provides extra protection against attacks on DNS or your domain name, and some additional DDoS protection.

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ivan888 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s probably not too important to choose a service that you think you can trust fully, because that trust might be broken at some point. But having an identifier that can be swapped to different backends, so people can find you again when the host inevitability changes, is a stronger strategy. I think the importance of owning domain names will increase, and using those as the canonical identifier of a project will give it more permanence. The procedures for seizure and censorship with domain names are better established and understood.

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sanskritical 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

there's decentralized git on Nostr:

https://nostrapps.github.io/nostrgit/

Your public key is your sovereign ownership of your project, and with Nostr is no longer bound to any single entity.

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datadrivenangel 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

GIT IS DECENTRALIZED

	▲	dbmikus 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		But the identity part of git is not (unless you count pgp signing of each commit, which never took off at a large scale) and the git tools don't automatically propagate repo changes by default across a network
	▲	iamnothere 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Issue tracking and collaboration tools are not. (Although many small projects could get by with a todo.txt and a mailing list.)
	▲	jmalicki 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		But if you just hashed all the changes and put them in Merkle tree to verify, wouldn't that make it so much better?
	▲	fooqux 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Yup, but the community you build around a project is not.
	▲	nighteous 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		[dead]

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bergie 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Git over Reticulum is another option. You get git, issue tracking (work documents), release management

https://reticulum.network/manual/git.html

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trollbridge 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m using self hosted GitLab; any reason I should check out something else?

(I also mirror projects to public GitLab and to GitHub.)

	▲	Tepix an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The ability for others to send you pull requests without requiring an account on your gitlab instance

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z0ltan 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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