Dan Johansen
Alex KretzschmarIt’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
alf149 (Rolf Amfelt)@ironicbadger
And essay to Schedule sync with public git, eg. Codeberg.
And essay to Schedule sync with public git, eg. Codeberg.
Rachel@alf149 @ironicbadger yup I've got a codeberg mirror for a key personal repo just in case something explodes my stack between that and offsite backups I could (very painfully) rebuild ...
slash@ironicbadger is the CI as easy to replace than the git hosting part ?
@slash yep! I just did a video for Tailscale about it but if you can self-host anything, it's easy enough.
Casey Liss@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”)
@caseyliss kind of.... but with git having local copies of everything anyway it's not too hard to have one on your laptop, one in a vm somewhere, another on a desktop, and so on. In fact, now I think about it my source code is likely one of the _most_ backed up things I have!
@ironicbadger Hah! Touché!
Though I would posit that this is true only if your devices are regularly doing `pull`s.
I don’t mean to “☝️ well actually ☝️” you; this is something I’ve been kicking around myself and haven’t come to a conclusion about.
@caseyliss Forgejo (and Gitea from which it is forked) have a scheduled sync option to pull in upstream changes from mirrored repos elsewhere. until we get full activitypub support that's a pretty good backup.
Have multiple Forgejos!
Have multiple Forgejos!
nicholai@caseyliss
Centralised git is a problem in general, but there are really good alternatives. Codeberg is popular, but there are many smaller instances from different groups, collectives and other such initiatives.
Fabos (not an OS)
McTwist@fabos @ironicbadger Difference between Gitea and Forgejo, is that Gitea has done some questionable decisions, while Forgejo is a fork.
@ironicbadger @mctwist which ones?
@fabos @ironicbadger I heard it only a couple of times, but this post should go into it in detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gitea/comments/yj6ndx/gitea_controversy_timeline/
@fabos @ironicbadger And as also mentioned below, Gitea is a fork of #Gogs, which had similar issues as Gitea.
System Accident@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.
@reachableceo never heard of cloudron! You like it?
@ironicbadger It is so nice. It keeps me from having to deal with DNS/docker/updates/backups etc for my production apps (gitea/redmine/immich/dolibarr/wordpress etc etc). Oh and OAUTH SSO for EVERYTHING :) WIth one click to turn on global 2fa. Also handles e-mail. All the annoying parts of self hosting.
I use tailscale (of course) to link it to my house. Strong recommmend!