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submitted 3 weeks ago by AstroLightz@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Recently, I can't access any GitHub repositories without having to sign in. This is becoming frustrating.

I'm looking for an alternative to switch to that has good git push/pull speeds (I've visited one which speeds are slow for me).

Any good options? Would one of the following be good?

  • Codeberg
  • Gitlab
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[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 3 weeks ago

codeberg seems to be working well for me. i got too many cloudflare captchas with gitlab.com.

[-] relic4322@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

same for me, codeberg works quite well. no issues at all in comparison to github. slowly moving my code over.

[-] utopiah@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 weeks ago

can’t access any GitHub repositories without having to sign in. This is becoming frustrating.

Yes... also can't search.

This is supposed to be OPEN source yet, enshittification by Microsoft here goes down its inexorable path. It started nicely then slowly but surely popular features are blocked behind restrictions, unpopular features are shoved down people through, more marketing is used to try to convince users are actually wrong, etc.

Please, do leave the platform and help others to do so.

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm using a selfhosted forgejo but in case something goes wrong with that, everything is also mirrored to sr.ht (which has a shit GUI if you are liking github/lab).

[-] mas@jlai.lu 15 points 3 weeks ago

Gitea : light and selfhosted

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nah, use Forgejo,

https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/

Forked from Gitea when they went full for-profit

Edit: Forgot to mention, Codeberg is a non-profit hosted instance of Forgejo, so you might already be using it

[-] mas@jlai.lu 8 points 3 weeks ago

Shit, I didn't know that 😞

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

All good, I was using gitea until I recently found out about forgejo. Plus they have a good migration guide if you’d like to switch 🙂

https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/gitea-migration/

[-] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

+1 for Gitea.

I recently set it up on a raspberry pi that was/is sitting mostly idle, in a docker container :)

[-] utopiah@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yep, running my own instance for years now.

To be fair though Gitea is by default much lighter than alternatives... because it's also minimalist. There are but default no runners, no testing environments, etc that e.g. Gitlab provides.

[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

GitLab SaaS and CE (self hosted) are both good options. Self hosted would obviously rely on whatever your server can do. SaaS has been very consistent. I mostly enjoy it for the CI/CD that is provides.

[-] menixator@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 weeks ago

Forgejo (what codeberg uses) can be selfhosted too

[-] BigLime@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago

Beat me to it

[-] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Is there a big cost with self-hosting, like bandwidth or storage, or is it generally fine?

[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's usually the storage costs that will get you if you store large files with GitLFS. Otherwise it's fairly light with the git repos and container image version persistence.

If you do plan on storing containers, you might want to enable the container purge.

[-] sith@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

Any shitty old laptop can self host any git service as long you only have a single or handful of users.

[-] antithetical@lemmy.deedium.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Hosting a Gitlab for work and for my private projects I agree. The CI/CD is excellent and I really like the way they handle issues and merge-requests. Gitlab is great but quite a beast, so throw some good CPU and storage at it.

[-] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

Rocketgit is extra fast

[-] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 2 points 3 weeks ago

Codeberg is great in my experience, but my usage isn't very intensive, so I can't speak for its speed if you push it.

[-] 6R1MR34P3R@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

check out SourceHut otherwise Codeberg is good too

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