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Good for them, but I (as a EU citizen) don't care about projects like this. It is a soulless copy-cat of a much more famous, profitable, free and useful project. Just look at the logo, what is that line in the middle and why is its stroke with bigger then the other stock icon embedded in the icon. I know I'm knitpicking but it says something about the character of the project and NLnet. This is woke IT, as long as it is decentralised it is somehow better than other software no matter how crapy the UX.

And please don't tell me it is open source software and I can contribute something, like I have time for that. Just take my money and shut up instead of, you know, using my tax money for stuff I don't care about. Thanks for listing to my TED talk.

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Is it really soulless? It seems like it solves a real problem: many Gitea instances are very small. The devs are passionate about their work and they are all working toward improving the software. So what if it's a copycat? GitHub could be argued to be a copycat of SourceForge. Gitea/forgefriends offers new features and improvements over GitHub. Gitea is as useful as GitHub for hosting a git repo with a web interface, but the federation aspect makes Gitea also a social site (much like GitHub).

As for the logo, the line in the middle is the "string" for the tea bag. It is a different size because the actual logo is not part of the string, so the distinction must be made.

> This is woke IT, as long as it is decentralised it is somehow better than other software no matter how crapy the UX.

As someone who has used Gitea in the past, it is wonderful for it's goal of running a Git server with a webUI. Don't knock it until you've tried it.

> And please don't tell me it is open source software and I can contribute something, like I have time for that. Just take my money and shut up instead of, you know, using my tax money for stuff I don't care about. Thanks for listing to my TED talk.

If you're not willing to work toward fixing something, then stop complaining about it.

This is miss allocation of resources, complaining about it is the least and only I can do.

NLnet, the foundation funding this work, is independent and not affiliated with the EU.

That is not even true, they are affiliated with NGI, the jokers that funds stuff like this:

TENACIOUS: Trustworthy sEmaNtic Aware marketplaCe for Interoperable clOUd Services

https://ontochain.ngi.eu/content/tenacious

> as a EU citizen

What does that to do with the rest of your message?

If anything as a EU citizen you should want to have alternatives that aren't chained to big non-EU companies.

> as long as it is decentralised it is somehow better than other software

It is like Free Software, for many the fact that it is Free/decentralized is what makes it better.

Gitea is awesome. I've been using it to host my own private repo on Vultr for nearly $3 a month

I use github for 0$ a month

I paid $0 for about a year and a half on Vultr since they had a promotional $50 credit. I got their cheapest option and just added some swap space. Plus, I like hosting my own compared to centralizing everything in a Microsoft platform

> Just take my money and shut up

This also sounds like a misallocation of resources - because you know, we won't

Yes you do it's called taxes and you spend it on something I already have

Your apparent obsession over wealth redistribution vs individual property seem to give you a peculiar view of the social universe. I don't believe we can have a meaningful conversation.

I didn't even mention any of that, so yea lets not talk

nitpicking

I could (and can) find you 100 million euro in structurally misallocated funding and still people don't care.

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