@erick have you looked at Forgejo or SourceHut? I'm thinking of hosting a small community and I'm leaning towards Forgejo myself, because *maybe* ForgeFed will be the future.
SourceHut is super-attractive to me, but harder to self-host. And maybe too "unconventional".
@yo I was literally looking at both this morning, but then I bumped into Gitea and self-hosting it for myself is going to be amazingly simple; they support a docker image and all they need for db is a SQLite file so it is a winner for me.
For context, at home I have a couple of Raspberry Pi at home, and most of the stuff I run on them is via Docker containers (Compose, not K8s). It has been so amazingly simple to have my own GoToSocial instance, Jenkins, etc.
@erick , oh, ForgeJo is a fork of Gitea. deployment is basically equivalent (it also has containers, supports SQLite, etc.)
SourceHut I think they're working on making it easy to deploy, but it's always being to be more complex and strange.
I do similar selfhosting currently (documented at https://github.com/alexpdp7/alexpdp7/tree/master/personal_infra )
@yo Ohhhh I saw the Foregejo reference at the footer of Codeberg and thought it was a different thing!
I am ready the Forgejo FAQ and def. will swtich from Gitea to Forgejo. Thanks for the tip!
@erick oh, they are both cool!!! I didn't want to convince you. Also, I think Gitea is also looking at ForgeFed, so in the end it might not matter.
(This is why SourceHut intrigues me. The email collaboration model is inherently distributed. But it's so far from the mainstream that...)
