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It's a Doge meme (Buff Doge vs Crying Cheems). Gitea is the sad crying dog (Crying Cheems): * Devs use GitHub to make Gitea * Proprietary toolchain: GitHub, Crowdin, Discord * Open Core * "Start Your 30-Day Free Trial" (Gitea Cloud) * "Open-source" (except for Gitea Cloud) * No mention of Forgejo * No large Gitea instances in the wild Forgejo is the strong doge (Buff Doge): * Devs use Forgejo to make Forgejo * Free software toolchain: Forgejo, Weblate, Matrix * Was born as response to hostile takeover * "we are looking forward for your contribution" * "exclusively Free Software" (and it's true) * explicitly criticizes Gitea * Runs codeberg.org (>46k repos, >96k users)