Gitlab.com just started doing shady stuff and requiring phone numbers or something on sign-up if what I read a few days ago here, is correct. For self-hosting the software should still be alright.
Github.com is by Microsoft and not free software. I don't know what direction Microsoft is taking with it, but it is widely adopted and they give you free CI and other stuff.
Codeberg, Sourcehut etc should be fine. I haven't heard negative things about them.
"Best" is running my own Forgejo on my server. At least that's what I think. But I also keep things on github, since all the people are there.
Can you keep things both on your forgejo and on github?
It is git. You can fork repos. And some platforms can mirror a repository and keep it synced. If not, you'd need to build something with webhooks. Or keep both synced manually every now and then (or on a new release/tag.)
What's best is probably hosting your own git server (for hopefully obvious reasons).
If you have the ability to host your own, then agreed 100% host your own. Microsoft proved that if companies are more than happy to mine your code
From personal experience, if you're hosting Gitlab and make it available to the internet, make sure to keep it updated or your server will be super slow hosting a crypto miner within a year.
Good advice for anything you're hosting!
Depends on what you're doing.
If you want free offsite backups, collaboration with others, integration with other tools, etc., then self-hosting is the worst option.
Though the topic is git forges, so then the question is which one do you self host?
A controversial opinion, but github is the most widely recognized and worth the most on your resume.
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You want your project to become popular, get stars and discussions ? : Github
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You want control for your small hobby project ? : Self host Gitea or Forgejo
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You don't mind paying and supporting an open source developer ? : Sourcehut
Forgejo: for when you really don't want to have to sanitize your scripts and don't want to leak passwords, but want version control and a nice webui
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codeberg
it’s like github but non-corporate free software
it’s very polished and featurful
it’s built upon/by the same devs as forgejo, which is open tech to self host your own git server (with federation potentially coming), so supporting one supports the other
Codeberg is a German non profit iirc, I host some stuff there but most is on my personal Forgejo.
The Forgejo devs (mostly centered on Codeberg) are also the ones pushing for federalized code forges (I open a PR on your git server from mine and so on)
Don't forget Sourcehut!
FWIW I really like bitbucket
