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At least, there's Codeberg, run by a German nonprofit, who's challenging the monopoly. It is aimed exclusively for FOSS projects, private repositories are forbidden. They are running Forgejo as their bloat-free software forge server.
Now, I think every Web2 website must be operated by a nonprofit.
From my PoV it's probably many of these projects are effectively public good spaces. Hosting a code repository has become less of an esoteric thing and turning into a public good benefit (like a physical library but virtual for code). Spaces like Reddit and Twitter are todays analogous of a public discussion forum in a park or at a bar.
Internet tools have become so ubiquitous they are critical to serve public needs and public benefits. However these internet spaces are increasingly commercialized and privatized, which runs against them being valuable public goods (see the difference between Wikipedia, run primarily for public benefit, and Wikia/Fandom).
Overall codeberg has been pretty decent, it's where the Kbin project is located. There's been a few outages over the last few weeks but overall it's pretty good.
Github has had some outages recently too. Codeberg's recent outage was particularly bad, but not serious.
Yes, I also experienced some outages and thus delayed pushing (which made me re-think again of overusing git submodules).
Nevertheless, I migrated my works from my server and Github to Codeberg recently.
wasn't codeberg using gitea? not it says powered by forgejo
Gitea was taken over by a for-profit company, Forgejo is a fork by the previous maintainers to continue it fully FOSS without any of the shenanigans. See also their FAQ.
Forgejo is Codeberg's fork of Gitea.
Forgejo is apparently a fork of Gitea.
Codeberg has private repos
Section 2.1.2 of Codeberg Terms of Service says:
So it's not for proprietary projects anyway.