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Right - I see the other topic has been locked / author hasn't returned to follow community rules.

Here's the original topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003386

and a measured (IMHO) response to it. (BTW, do your self a favour and change tabs with that site open :)

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg/

It's a tough spot, Codeberg has found themselves in and I wish them luck. But beyond that, this is (yet) another reminder that in 2026, if you don't self host it, the cloud is just someone else computer

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[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

OOTL Wasn't there something about forgejos capabilities to federate? I had the impression, that it would go the fediverse route with many interacting instances. Then everyone can make their own rules. There are many reason to moderate repos. So why is this such a big thing (if forgejo federates as I remembered from the back of my head)?

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Federation is still a work in progress IIRC.

But everyone can already selfhost their own instance if all they want is a web-facing git forge.

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Being able to self host a git forge was always possible, even before forgejo. Besides the gitea controversy I thought the federation to be the real killer feature.

So I guess I have to wait a bit more for the federation.

[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because Codeberg is its own charity type thing they have a cohort of users that vote on decisions made and you cannot even see how they came to that decision because that area is restricted to them. Presumably they might not federate at all.

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not federating at all would be a shame IMO. I'm really exited on this feature for git forges

[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Agree but their stance on LLM content is a big put off for me. I don't share my scripts and things I write with AI but I like to keep them all together.

And it concerns me that Codeberg is the guiding hand for the forjejo project.