Post #3006628
2026-05-12 07:55 UTC
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@ozoned@piefed.social 2026-05-12 08:05
Codeberg is supporting forgejo which Codeberg is built on. Forgejo is ActivityPub powered git repositories. So imagine regular git, but everyone can have their own repos on their own sites and you can still interact with each other. So yes, Codeberg is centealized FOR NOW. But they're working on opening it up to EVERYONE to run their own and be able to access all the repos you use over the Fediverse.
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@realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 2026-05-12 08:23
Even if, switching your used repo hosting service is a matter of minutes if you're using git. You register on the other site, add your SSH key, update the remote URL of your repository which is just a `git remote set-url origin ` and then hit `git push`, probably with something like `--force` or another option, kinda forgot the exact name. So that's something you could easily automate in like 10 lines of bash script for all your repositories. It's super hard to "trap" people in something like github because git is so open and decentralized. Switching is super easy. Most people who stay on github or gitlab do it because they need the CI/CD pipelines or because they're lazy and/or stupid.
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@belazor@lemmy.zip 2026-05-12 08:16
It’s funny coming from the Plex thread into this; ~100% of people who keep using Plex do so because it’s centralised and it makes sharing their library with their network of family and friends easier. The truth is; a lot of us feel like we need more internet accounts about as much as we need genital warts. Part of the reason GitHub got successful was the fact that you only needed to register once and you had access to fork and PR all the repos on there. Decentralisation is great for self hosting things for, well, yourself and your household, but it’s got hefty downsides. Account creation is a friction point for others to join and collab.
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@vogi@piefed.social 2026-05-12 08:23
Its centralized, but they (forgejo, the underlying software) are building on standards wherever possible so it should be easy enough to move things around. I also don't really see them breaking bad anytime soon, at some point you have stop worrying and start to build shit.
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@tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 2026-05-12 08:05
It is but they're working on federation for forgejo (which powers Codeberg).
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@Legianus@programming.dev 2026-05-12 08:04
Oh sorry, I might have misunderstood your question. Yes, Codeberg is centralised, but it is registered at a public e.V. in Germany making it more open (not a company). But then you could use what they use, Forgejo to self host. Or Gittea as suggested by somebody else.