We should worry less about what everyone else uses, and more about what we use. I'm self-hosting Gitea and thinking of upgrading to Forgejo. What are you using?

I've moved from gitlab -> gitea+drone -> forgejo+woodpecker

Works great for small-medium scale

I actually just installed forgejo in My Home lab and loving it. Thinking about moving the companys code hosting to it next.

Yes

But GitHub, in its heyday, was a centre. Created a sense of "community"

It has taken a while, but since MS bought it it has been shirking that. I expected honest enshittification, but instead it has been technical collapse

What ever.

IMO we need a federation protocol for Git that can rebuild some sort of "community", but on solid foundations.

So we can find one another on our self hosted instances