Welcome to another edition of #FOSSFriday! Up this week, Gitea!

GitHub is a popular choice for hosting Git repositories, but it's not the only option. Gitea is a free and open source self-hosted Git service that offers many of the same features as GitHub, but with some key advantages.

* Cost: Gitea is free to download and use, even for commercial projects.

* Privacy: Gitea is self-hosted, which means that you have complete control over your data. GitHub is a cloud-based service, which means that your data is stored on GitHub's servers.

* Customization: Gitea is highly customizable. You can change the look and feel of the interface, add new features, and integrate with other services.

* Performance: Gitea is lightweight and efficient, even on low-powered hardware.

Even if you aren't a developer, you can use Gitea to mirror your favorite projects that are on GitHub. This essentially allows you to keep a backup of these projects, in case GitHub would ever nuke them. For example, I keep a mirror of Bitcoin Core.