spacebearmakes

Except Gitea has all the functionality in the list you linked.

Gitea is working on federation, so lock-in wouldn't be a problem

Gitea is working on federation so there wouldn't be lock-in.

I offer Gitea hosting. Storage is the most costly part of it.

It is currently something that is being worked on. See this issue for status: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029

Self-hosting also takes resources such as time and money, and not all open source projects have the latter.

The project is working on that, see this issue for status: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029

gitea.io is run on Digital ocean. You can see the expenses here: https://opencollective.com/gitea

The owner of the forum received the "Nightmare letter" [1] which he is legally obligated to respond to, which as an open source project does not have the resources to be able to respond to them.

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-acce...

When you receive a request that is titled the "Nightmare letter" [1] it is hard to assume otherwise.

1: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-acce...

When you receive a request that is titled the "Nightmare letter" [1] it is hard to assume otherwise.

1: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-acce...

Look at the Waymo/Uber lawsuit. It involves alleged theft of IP and the individual along with company is being sued.