Maybe the official site uses cloudflare but out of the several gitea instances i’ve used exactly 0% used cloudflare ;)
To be fair Gitea development does use Github at the moment, and developing ActivityPub-based federation is part of the project to break out of Github entirely.
I’d say it depends what “best” means. There is Codeberg, Gitea, Gitlab and others. Last year or so they started Radicle (http://radicle.xyz) which is decentralized, but I don’t know how far they are.
What’s the best alternative?
TLDR: in this day and age i would go with Gitea because it’s going down the federated route.
I have a longer blog post presenting the many concerns about software forging Decentralized forge: distributing the means of digital production
Gitea looks good. What lets them a bit down imho is that they are using Cloudflare.
Gitea is awesome, you could host one without cloudflare. It’s pretty easy, for example with yunohost
Maybe the official site uses cloudflare but out of the several gitea instances i’ve used exactly 0% used cloudflare ;)
To be fair Gitea development does use Github at the moment, and developing ActivityPub-based federation is part of the project to break out of Github entirely.
EDIT: wrote lemmy instead of gitea :)
I’d say it depends what “best” means. There is Codeberg, Gitea, Gitlab and others. Last year or so they started Radicle (http://radicle.xyz) which is decentralized, but I don’t know how far they are.