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Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects

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Re: Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects

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Post by dragonwriter »

blitzo wrote: post #2

I always wonder what GitHub has that Codeberg doesn't. It's a shame this isn't as popular. It seems like developers, of all people, are willingly letting their code be AI piggybacked.

> I always wonder what GitHub has that Codeberg doesn't.

Aside from previously established dominance and associated network effects, a whole lot of individually little things which add up to a lot.

> It's a shame this isn't as popular. It seems like developers, of all people, are willingly letting their code be AI piggybacked.

So long as the AI firms operate under the assumption (and courts so far in the US at least seem inclined to favor this view) that training AI on copyright-protected material isn't infringement, any publicly-exposed code is going to be subject to AI piggybacking, not just code hosted on Github.

Re: Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects

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Post by datadrivenangel »

johannes1234321 wrote: post #17
blitzo wrote: post #2

I always wonder what GitHub has that Codeberg doesn't. It's a shame this isn't as popular. It seems like developers, of all people, are willingly letting their code be AI piggybacked.

"Everybody" is on GitHub. For Codeberg contributors, bug reporters, ... probably got to register first. Also: GitHub is so established that for many people git and GitHub are the same thing.

People calling git GitHub is one of my pet peeves.

Re: Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects

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Post by xigoi »

zhobbs wrote: post #12
blitzo wrote: post #2

I always wonder what GitHub has that Codeberg doesn't. It's a shame this isn't as popular. It seems like developers, of all people, are willingly letting their code be AI piggybacked.

conversely, what's the purpose of using Codeberg over Github?

It’s faster and FOSS.

Re: Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects

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Post by enkrs »

I'm wondering, now almost three years in after the Forgejo/Gitea fork, which side of the fork ended up better. Both still seem very active with thousands of commits each.

I run a Gitea server (since long before the fork, constantly updated) that handles issues, pull requests, signed commits, CI/CD, actions, and even serves my containers and packages. It's been amazing.

Of course Forgejo can do the same. For those who’ve followed both projects closely — which fork would you say has come out ahead? Codeberg being Forgejo's SaaS offering likely gives them more resources, but I also wonder if that means their priorities lean more toward SaaS than self-hosting.

Re: Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

blitzo wrote: post #2

I always wonder what GitHub has that Codeberg doesn't. It's a shame this isn't as popular. It seems like developers, of all people, are willingly letting their code be AI piggybacked.

I had codeberg account before github account.

I really created a github account to star other people's project and my keepassxc had got deleted by me messing around in my linux so I had lost access to my codeberg previous account and I think even my previous github account too but I went around to create a new github account but never a new codeberg account untill just recently (literally 1 hour ago lol)

for me I could star a lot of projects and show support and there is even github donations. Its not as if I like github but I am giving my reasoning as to why I think the reason is that github won and codeberg hadn't.

There are still a lot of people which use codeberg but a lack of awareness is also one part and the lack of people on codeberg. To me, like, I thought that if my project is on codeberg then it would get less stars (I was really chasing stars back then lol) and it would get less visibility and less people contributing and so on I think...

Doesn't also help when you need a github account anyways to contribute to a git project in the sense that you ask them an issue.

IIRC I wanted to ask a github issue on some project and that's why I had created my original account but then started hosting some code between codeberg and github from exclusively codeberg to then all code on github...

Now I am starting to take back on that by hosting things on codeberg again from a fresh account.

Re: Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects

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Post by kstrauser »

enkrs wrote: post #25

I'm wondering, now almost three years in after the Forgejo/Gitea fork, which side of the fork ended up better. Both still seem very active with thousands of commits each. I run a Gitea server (since long before the fork, constantly updated) that handles issues, pull requests, signed commits, CI/CD, actions, and even serves my containers and packages. It's been amazing. Of course Forgejo can do the same. For those who…

When I checked a couple months ago, Forgejo was getting quite a bit more developer activity, which makes sense to me given the reason for the split: https://honeypot.net/2025/05/14/gitea-vs-forgejo-development...

Re: Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects

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Post by AlOwain »

zhobbs wrote: post #12
blitzo wrote: post #2

I always wonder what GitHub has that Codeberg doesn't. It's a shame this isn't as popular. It seems like developers, of all people, are willingly letting their code be AI piggybacked.

conversely, what's the purpose of using Codeberg over Github?

I too would like to understand why. Perhaps the only one I care for is that I would not like to give too much power to Microsoft in choosing who can contribute.

Others have issue with their code being used in AI training, but I find no issue in that myself, my code is not exclusively mine anyway and I have no say in how it is being used.

Re: Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

dismalaf wrote: post #10
blitzo wrote: post #2

I always wonder what GitHub has that Codeberg doesn't. It's a shame this isn't as popular. It seems like developers, of all people, are willingly letting their code be AI piggybacked.

Codeberg doesn't allow any projects that aren't FOSS. Personally I use Gitlab.

Wait really? is that the case, I didn't know that!

I actually went and found the source as I wanted to ask you but I felt like HN police might come saying to give a google search so I am going to paste it here to save someone else a google search but also here is the main thing

> Our mission is to support the creation and development of Free Software; therefore we only allow repos licensed under an OSI/FSF-approved license. For more details see Licensing article. However, we sometimes tolerate repositories that aren't perfectly licensed and focus on spreading awareness on the topic of improper FLOSS licensing and its issues.

https://codeberg.org/magicfelix/Codeberg-Documentation/src/b...

Funny thing is that I found this through by copying the statement from the hackernews comment and I was only able to find this through HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35480056

Re: Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects

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Post by max_ »

blitzo wrote: post #2

I always wonder what GitHub has that Codeberg doesn't. It's a shame this isn't as popular. It seems like developers, of all people, are willingly letting their code be AI piggybacked.

Codeberg suffers from the same problem as sourcehut.

They are so fanatical that many groups are unable to use them.

Sourcehut for example is hostile towards cryptocurrency related projects.

Coderberg is hostile towards private repos.

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