Anyone knows a good lightweight self-hosted alternative to GitHub?

khoi@slrpnk.net to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 119 points –

I'm looking to self-host a GitHub alt on a cheap Linux VPS for personal use. Any rec?

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Big +1 for Forgejo, also they are actively working on implementing Federation, i.e. in the future Forgejo servers will be able to exchange information as a federated network, just like good old Lemmy ๐Ÿ˜Š If you want to try the toolchain (Forgejo+Woodpecker CI), it's what Codeberg.org (run by the German nonprofit organization of the same name) offers freely.

whatโ€™s the benefits of being federated for code?

This will allow you to browse & contribute to projects hosted on other instances without having an account there. Imagine using the GitHub search to find a project on Gitlab, then opening an issue there without ever even leaving GitHub. The protocol is called ForgeFed.