Is there something wrong with Gitlab?
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2025
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Is there something wrong with Gitlab?
Not inherently—GitLab works fine, but it’s corporate-owned, collects some data, and isn’t fully decentralized. If your goal is privacy, open source, and independence from Big Tech, that’s why people look for alternatives like Gitea, Forgejo, or federated solutions.
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Have not used it but there is also Pijul. It's not git based and uses another diff algorithm, not fediverse.
Game of Trees - https://gameoftrees.org/index.html
Not distributed but definitely meets other requirements.
GitHub has ads? Unless you just mean them aggressively pushing copilot, but I don’t consider that an ad.