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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I've left github for personal projects (still need it for work for now), and moved to Gitlab. Gitlab is honestly not any better when thinking about european alternatives (it's also US), and it is not completely open-source either, but the nice european alternative Codeberg is only for open-source projects and doesn't really tolerate or give an option to pay to host non-opensource projects.

I would pay for codeberg if they allowed non-opensource repositories, but they have stated that codeberg does not really allow non-opensource projects. I'm a FOSS enthusiast and donate my time and money to FOSS, but not everything I make is FOSS.

I know, I could selfhost Forgejo, but it would truly be great to have, say, EU funded open code repository like Github/GitLab with possibility to pay to host non-opensource projects or something.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Aren't there any managed Forgejo instances?

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

There are, but so far the ones I've found are not reliable enough for bigger scale stuff. That's kinda why I mentioned "being ready to pay". If there would be - let's say - non-profit foundation hosting something like codeberg with free-tier for FOSS and paid for non-FOSS in Europe I'd switch to it.

I'm really looking forward to Forgejo implementing federation and am hoping to selfhost someday, but for now codeberg is not really allowing my full repository to be hosted :(

[–] choutos@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Gitlab is a publicly traded US company, GTLB on the Nasdaq.