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.

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea

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You might want to take a look at the gogs too. The original, more lightweight version

https://gogs.io/

will do. i've ran gitea for a while, but im down to check out other projects. thanks.

Surprised at how feature rich gitea is!

Should we pronounce it “giddy” ?

i pronounce it "gitty" but i guess if i say it fast it sounds like "giddy". no clue on the correct way! choose your own adventure.

it really is great. nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj and i use it for all of our internal https://nostrplebs.com projects and internal issue tracking.

bitcoin core mirror on gitea - I will be doing that 😃🤙

i just feel that it's right to have a copy of it. *shrug*

How about #git on #nostr relay?

there are a couple projects looking to do this, build git on nostr.

solid!