(Self-)hosting costs real money:

https://opencollective.com/gothub/expenses/

We are about to send more than €2k, almost half our existing @gothub funds, to hosting companies. (This includes horrendous one-time setup fees which I somehow managed to negotiate down by 50%.)

When users rely on hosted services without paying for them, the costs are somehow being offset by someone else.

If you are moving your #git repositories to @Codeberg as so many of you seem to be doing now (good!), please donate regularly to keep them afloat long-term.

@gothub requires payments (as small as we can reasonably make them) to ensure that the ship won't sink as long as the costs can be offset by people using service or contributing to the fund. In this model, the more users we get, the cheaper we can get by spreading the costs.