First I was using Gogs. Someone forked Gogs and made Gitea, because Gogs was under control of a single person and some other people found that frustrating.
I was using Gitea for a long time, and then someone forked Gitea to create Forgejo. At this time, my installation of Gitea was already out of date a bit because I had previously been manually building and installing Gitea from source. Soon after Forgejo was created, it landed in FreeBSD ports and then it became available in the FreeBSD package manager.
So at this point, and having read a bit about Forgejo and seeing that Forgejo was maintained by people with connection to Codeberg, I thought “hey I need to migrate my current Gitea setup anyway. Either to Gitea installed from FreeBSD packages, or to something else. I might as well try Forgejo.”
And that’s how I ended up installing Forgejo and I’ve stuck with it since.
Aha, makes sense. Thanks for explaining. I see that Forgejo was created at least partially due to concerns that Gitea was trending towards freemium as well. Good to know.
https://forgejo.org/