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My account was flagged because I forked and contributed to the project Eaglercraft, and that means my account is basically useless. I have had enough of Microsoft's exploitation of power and want to switch to another alternative.

I tried GitLab, but I need to signup with a credit card and I am not comfortable giving my personal info out.
I tried Gitea and the experience is great, but I am limited to 5 repos. I tried Source Forge, but I cannot verify my phone number when creating a repo. The prompt just returns an API error.

What other alternative should I try?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have two GitLab accounts and I've never given a credit card. That may be something new they're doing to try to reduce the number of spam accounts signing up. You could use a Privacy.com card, put in whatever name and address you want.

In any case, if you're looking at sites which host your repos, you're gonna have to deal with them being able to deny you service at any time. No way around it.

I'm considering hosting a gitea instance myself, only accessible over tailscale. But I've got to keep my Githib up because I maintain a few Zsh plugins.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

GitLab started requiring a credit card because they got flooded with people using CI to mine crypto.