Can't say whether it's "just" a hosted version of Gitea (or gitlab), but the point is, in fact, that it's hosted, doesn't track you, and can give your project a

Can't say whether it's "just" a hosted version of Gitea (or gitlab), but the point is, in fact, that it's hosted, doesn't track you, and can give your project a permanent URL that isn't unfamiliar to a crowd "educated" and networked to find everything on github. Now a better solution still would be to self-host on a proper project home page.