Gitea is prob the best pick if you fancy a github-a-like. Hopefully we soon have forgefed/AP federation, to facilitate collaboration across servers. The intenti

Gitea is prob the best pick if you fancy a github-a-like. Hopefully we soon have forgefed/AP federation, to facilitate collaboration across servers. The intention is to make it a standard protocol for forges to share not just code but also the coordination/social parts, so a server can choose to allow outside contribution without registering or e-mail. As soon as you get a Postgres server up and have some flow to keep your infra in source control (ansible+docker-compose/systemd goes a long way; they're a sane starting point for the unopionated mostly because of popularity), setting up new services is pretty straight-forward. I did use nexus at work but tbh the official docker-registry container and a static webserver have proven sufficient for personal use. Here's a decent run-down of alternatives for hosting a forge, it all comes down to preference: https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/choosing-a-self-hosted-git-service https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/choosing-a-self-hosted-git-ser... > Or is the only viable advice nowadays: "Don't. Just use the cloud."? For the people who really can't or won't self-host, I'd suggest at least looking at smaller providers rather than defaulting to big tech for everything.