I’d agree. Also Lemmy is too much just dropping news articles and discussing world politics for my taste. Maybe being just another comment feed underneath a news article isn’t that engaging and interesting. I’d like to see more about hobbies and meaningful, sustainable talk about specific topics.
Gitlab.com just started doing shady stuff and requiring phone numbers or something on sign-up if what I read a few days ago here, is correct. For self-hosting the software should still be alright.
Github.com is by Microsoft and not free software. I don’t know what direction Microsoft is taking with it, but it is widely adopted and they give you free CI and other stuff.
Codeberg, Sourcehut etc should be fine. I haven’t heard negative things about them.
“Best” is running my own Forgejo on my server. At least that’s what I think. But I also keep things on github, since all the people are there.
What’s with the Republicans, don’t they like their country and democracy any more?