Forgejo
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Beyond coding. We forge. Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Self-Hosted
- Go (Programming Language)
- Cloudron
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Recent News
- Mauricio B. Holguin published news article about Forgejo
- Mauricio B. Holguin published news article about Forgejo
- Mauricio B. Holguin published news article about Forgejo
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Europe’s Open-Source Solutions: Your Guide to Transparent, Independent and GDPR-Aligned Software.
This guide is designed for anyone looking to take greater control of their digital life by choosing open-source solutions developed and maintained within Europe. It highlights projects that promote transparency, reduce reliance on non-European tech ecosystems, and align with Europe’s strong commitment to privacy and data protection. The goal is to support digital autonomy in Europe while uplifting the local developers and communities who build trustworthy, user-centric software.
Selfhosting
Selfhosting is where you're hosting your own websites, apps, software, tools, and much more on your own server instead of having to rely on 3rd-party cloud providers such as Hetzner. Taking this approach to hosting gives you more control over your data and how your server or servers are managed.
When you are running multiple things on one or two servers, within your home, it's called a "Homelab" and you're "Homelabbing" at that point.
Running your own server and homelab within your home is great for privacy-conscious individuals such as myself, tech enthusiasts, small businesses, and those seeking more control of their digital life.
The following lists provided here are applications and software I've gotten comfortable with and enjoyed using over the past 3 and a half years since I started homelabbing, it's based on my experience and what fits my criteria. Some well known softwares won't be listed here, as my experience may of not been at best with them.
My criteria is that software is built in the open, respects user privacy and security, should not require a license to operate, and don't contain profanity and other minor things.
I'm also willing to test new software to selfhost, feel free to comment or message me to try out other alternatives.
There are other places to check out as well for those interesting selfhosting, such as Awesome Selfhosted, selfh.st, and other places you can find on the internet.
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin
https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker
If you ever need help with selfhosting, you can check out the following communities:
Homelab Community on Fluxer, I personally run
/r/selfhosted (Reddit)
/c/selfhosted (Lemmy / Fediverse)
There's also a wiki you can look into as well.
If you believe an alternative software should be added to this list, please contact me or direct message via my AlternativeTo account. I'm also available on Signal.
This lists gets updated every month at least, check back regularly.
AI Slopfree Software Catalog
A more optimistic homage to the slopware catalog https://alternativeto.net/lists/44427/slopware/, this list is designed to showcase projects, both FOSS and proprietary, which reject contributions from Generative AI LLM slop machines. The most pessimistic thing about this list is how short it is and how so many commonly used software solutions and websites are not included.
I have to give it up to the following sites for providing references:
https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index
https://github.com/melissawm/open-source-ai-contribution-policies
There are a lot more projects on this list which I didn't include because they aren't on AlternativeTo (yet). I'll be adding more entries to this site (and removing those who fold to the AI overlords) on a regular basis. I'm including references, which are all first-hand declarations from the development teams for each entry to ensure items aren't included based on hearsay or conjecture.
Updated 10-2-2026
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Strength: • Drop-in replacement for Gitea • Libre Source (Open Source). If you are not familiar with "Libre Source", it means this software has both stronger security & stronger privacy. Because its code is publicly available for review and contributions at https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo • Attractive MIT license. This means the software code of this extension is owned and supported by a friendly not-for-profit community. Instead of a for-profit corporation. https://forgejo.org/imprint/ In comparison, Gitea is owned by a for-profit. • Self-hosted • Federated • API • Kanban board • Dark theme • Self-hosted or SaaS at https://codeberg.org Codeberg is powered by Forgejo • Visual design and workflow similar Github. Which make migration and initial learning curve much easier. • For those not familiar with the challenge with Gitea is that starting in October 2022 Gitea is owned and controlled by a for-profit company. The risk with for-profit company is that, usually, they value money above people. So in the future, it is very high risk that Gitea will introduce lock-ins to monetize. Functionalities available only if you pay. And increasingly make decision without involving the community or just ignore it. Why. Simply because legally speaking, for-profit organization communicate a clear intent that they value money above people. Above you ;)
___• "In October 2022 the domains and trademark of Gitea were transferred to a for-profit company without knowledge or approval of the community. Despite writing an open letter, the takeover was later confirmed." Source at:
______• https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social
______• https://archive.ph/T573R#selection-83.0-99.83
___• To resolve this challenge, I suggest to migrating to any alternative to your liking which is owned by a NOT-for-profit organization. The keyword here is "NOT-for-profit". Because NOT-for-profit value people above money. In comparison, https://forgejo.org is owned by its community :) In other words, owned and controlled by YOU.
___• "Forgejo was created in 2022 because we think that the project should be owned by an independent community. If you second that, then Forgejo is for you! Our promise: Independent Free/Libre Software forever!" Source:
______• https://codeberg.org/Forgejo/forgejo
______• https://archive.ph/UZx6n
___• One of many examples of people who migrated AWAY from Gitea is Codeberg. Since December 2022, Codeberg is now powered by Forgejo. Codeberg host over 50,000 projects and 40,000 users.
___• Codeberg wrote: "Codeberg needs to run on a Free Software codebase maintained by trustworthy people. And the Gitea community deserves to be in control of the project when they generously volunteer their time. It must not be the company accepting the community. It must be the community generously accepting the company, and Gitea Ltd should be thankful for this, instead of trying to dictate how governance shall work in the future. Luckily Codeberg is in a unique position to reconnect the Gitea community in one place, independent and out of control of Gitea Ltd. And so we did." "Codeberg will use Forgejo instead of Gitea starting with version 1.18.0" Source:
______• https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html
______• https://archive.ph/qcva1
Challenge: • Very basic time tracking, email notification on events, and Kanban board. In the future those popular features will likely grow. But for now there are very basic.
___• Time trackings do not yet have reporting features. This is essential for Product/Project Managers services.
___• Email notifications include only "Email on mention", "Enable", or fully "Disable Email Notification", and other options need to be enable for EACH user.
___• Kanban board can not easily be filtered to reduce the clutter. Which is challenging for large team.
Show Your Support:
• If you enjoy this application, show your support to the authors & contributors with:
___• Community support with tickets at https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues
___• Report bugs at https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues
___• Contribute documentation at https://forgejo.org/docs/latest
___• Patch at https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo
Sadly currently lacks some features, such as on-website PR merge conflict resolving
Forgejo is NOT independently developed, but takes (FOSS) work from the Gitea developers and removes any credit to the original authors.
The forgejo 'team' is essentially white-labeling the honest open-source efforts of the Gitea developers.
This might be legally allowed for open-source code, but it's morally despicable.
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/251
Do they really remove the credits though?
Not a gitea replacement if you are using Windows/Mac not every dev has or wants a Linux system. You could use it on Windows if you wanted to run it on the Linux subsystem, but most of the time if you don't have a Linux system you probably don't want to deal with that either.
Build by the community. Works really well both locally and on other people's hots.
Open Source GitHub alternative! While having similar UI as GH
Simple to setup in 5 minutes or less! Includes all the needs like git control, versioning, automation, and more!