Pros and Cons of Self-hosting a Public Git Forge

It's been over a year since I mostly broke up with GitHub. In that year, I've been running my own public Forgejo instance for my personal projects. It's important to stress the public part, as most of what I'm going to discuss is directly correlated to that. This isn't a post to critique Forgejo vs. alternatives, either. I found Forgejo to be great. My only gripe is that I very much prefer GitLab runners and AWS CodeBuild to GitHub Actions, which Forgejo Actions is modeled after. With regard to GitLab, I am in the process of moving my projects over there. Why not Codeberg? Aside from my need for private repositories, I have mixed feelings about their hard-line stance against "AI projects". I definitely think it comes from the noblest of intentions, but I can't help but think, what happens when a project gets banned erroneously? Because there's no easy way to prove code is or isn't LLM generated, it leaves a lot open for interpretation. A decade of running a social network in a past…