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Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash
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Codeberg is absolutely an alternative hosting place that is ready to go today. Medium and large players like Zig, Guix, Librewolf, Forgejo, and Comaps are on Codeberg. These aren't random people with projects that no one uses. These are large projects with lots of collaborators that ship software to lots of people. (Even Alpine Linux seems to be experimenting with Codeberg.)
Codeberg has a similar UI/UX to GitHub. It's got CI too, either traditional CI with Woodpecker, or you can migrate your GitHub Actions to Forgejo Actions (which are similar).
Codeberg is big and popular enough that it shows up in web search results, search for "zig source code" and you'll get a result for Codeberg. It's not like people only search for code in the GitHub search bar.
I wasn't saying that codeberg was isolation, I'm saying that you don't have to extract yourself from all non-European tools and dependencies in order to maintain sovereignty.
Not from what I can see.
Sure, if you search for something you are explicitly aware is on Codeberg, you'll find... links to Codeberg.
But if you search for "source code repositories", "where to find open source software", "where to find source code for software", you get #1 Github, then Sourceforge, then other random ones like Google Code Repos.
Even from the projects you listed, I've only heard of Forgejo (and that's only because I was explicitly searching for self-hosted code repo software), and Librewolf (Alpine is on their own Gitlab instance). Also, listing the software that the website itself is built on as evidence of big projects hosting there is a little obama-giving-himself-a-medal-meme-y.
I'm not saying Codeberg is bad, or that people shouldn't use it, but it's not well-known and is not something to shame people for not using.
I like the spirit but let's be honest, none of the examples you cited in your first paragraph are "large".