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Forgejo

Community-governed Gitea fork (powers Codeberg)

provisional — pending verificationGPL-3.0+self-hostable

Arete score

5.0 / 5

Autonomy5

Return5

Efficiency5

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending.

Why it's listed

Forgejo is listed in git hosting & ci because it competes on utility: community-governed gitea fork (powers codeberg). It's stewarded by a non-profit or foundation, which structurally protects it from acquisition-driven enshittification. Licensed GPL-3.0+; pricing: free. Technically it's lean — it runs comfortably on modest hardware, which is exactly the proof-of-work efficiency we rank for. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: GPL-3.0+
Pricing: Free
Funding model: Non-profit (Codeberg)
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: easy
Replaces: GitHub
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

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