In the wake of the “GitHub CEO stepped down, no longer independent” news, I’m reminded that not enough people know about @Codeberg — free Git hosting run by a non-profit organization.

No tracking, no ads, no corporate buyout risk. Just open-source, community-driven software hosting.

Give it a try → https://codeberg.org

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Codeberg.org

Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

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@lutzhuehnken right, but it's FOSS only. No private repos. That's not a bad thing in and of itself, but it's not for everyone. It doesn't suit my needs, as it happens, but I wish it every success.
@Hyperlynx While I agree that their main target is FOSS, they do have private repos. I think they even had free private repos before Github did.

@lutzhuehnken Huh. Interesting. I guess their FAQ must be out of date

https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#how-about-private-repositories%3F

It reads:

Codeberg's mission is to promote free/libre software. Keeping software private is obviously not our primary use case, but we acknowledge that private repositories are useful or necessary at times.

The rules of thumb are:

If you are a contributor to free/libre software projects, we allow up to 100 MB of private content for your convenience. Use it for your personal notes, your side project or any other you want to keep private.
I need more clarification on this rule!

If your private content is strictly required for a free/libre software project (like team-internal discussions, preparation of security patches, or preparing a release for a limited amount of time), private content will also be tolerated.

If you use more than 100 MB of private storage for the use cases mentioned earlier, please send us a request and we can evaluate it.

If you do not contribute to any free/libre software project at all, Codeberg is unfortunately not the right place for you. However, check out the alternatives, we're sure you'll find a cozy place for your work.

Frequently Asked Questions | Codeberg Documentation

@Hyperlynx I apologize, you're right of course. I hadn't read the FAQ, it's pretty clear:

> If you do not contribute to any free/libre software project at all, Codeberg is unfortunately not the right place for you.

@lutzhuehnken are you involved in FOSS projects? Maybe that's why you've got the "private repos" option available
@Hyperlynx I want to say yes, but it's really not to an extend that warrants any preferential treatment. Are you saying you don't have the checkbox at all? I'm having a hard time imagining @Codeberg doing "background checks" on their users' contributions.

@lutzhuehnken @Hyperlynx Indeed – it is too much volume. We just have a set of rules and hope that a user will do what they think is right. We have a relative amount of lenience (e.g. we won't get angry if you got to 110 MiB and you didn't request that extra 10 MiB).

(As in: Please don't make a private backup of your entire PC in a private repository though, we will notice that eventually and we don't like it when donated money is used that way. :D) ~n

@lutzhuehnken @Hyperlynx And when I say "trusting one to do the right thing": Normally, the users that are worried about potentially breaking the rule are not the ones to completely disregard them to an incredible degree, so. ~n
@Codeberg @lutzhuehnken @Hyperlynx One could do what I do is use Forgejo for things not quite ready to be public, but also use Codeberg things that are finished and relatively small in file size.