Post #965539

2026-03-27 12:56 UTC

It’s time to consider leaving GitHub. The community aspect no longer truly outweighs the harm of feeding the corporations models. Self-hosting Forgejo is easy and free. #selfhosting

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@alf149@social.data.coop 2026-03-27 13:02

@ironicbadger And essay to Schedule sync with public git, eg. Codeberg.

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@slash@pouet.chapril.org 2026-03-27 13:19

@ironicbadger is the CI as easy to replace than the git hosting part ?

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@caseyliss@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 13:59

@ironicbadger I don’t particularly disagree with your thesis here, but genuine question: I consider GIthub to be — in part — an offsite backup. Does that not give you the willies, if you’re hosting in-home? (This is leaving aside the obvious answer of “host on Hetzner then, you worry wart”)

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@fabos@der.cyberterror.ist 2026-03-27 15:35

@ironicbadger@techhub.social also #gitea

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@reachableceo@socialnet.turnsys.com 2026-03-29 13:39

@ironicbadger Gitea on cloudron for me. I have found gitea to be the least friction in terms of migrating from github. I don't know why cloudron doesn't get more love in the self hosting community. Of course,. I'm not running a "homelab" , I'm running production workloads on premise out of a residential structure. Though I run cloudron on my VPS in Reston VA.

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