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## First steps towards Codeberg

DevFeed: [First steps towards Codeberg](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/first-steps-towards-codeberg-26163.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://dev.to/tkuenneth/first-steps-towards-codeberg-48hl>)

Author: Thomas Künneth

Published: 2025-12-31T11:43:33Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Thomas Künneth](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/thomas-kunneth.md>)

Topics: [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hosting.md>), [forgejo](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/forgejo.md>), [Gitea](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gitea.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [bitbucket](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bitbucket.md>), [passwords](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/passwords.md>)

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### AI overview

An introductory tutorial about Codeberg, a community-driven, nonprofit platform for hosting software projects. The author explains its open-source, privacy-focused model and demonstrates registering an account and beginning to migrate a GitHub repository.

### Source excerpt

A lot of Europeans are currently talking about Europe having to become more independent from US-based big tech. Being a European myself, I feel the need for this, too. However, just talking won't make a difference. So, why not make this our New Year's resolution? Here's mine: I love open source. Given GitHub's recent trajectory toward centralisation, I feel there are better-suited homes for my repositories. That's why I will start migrating them to Codeberg. What is Codeberg? Codeberg is a community-driven non-profit platform for hosting software projects. Many consider it the leading independent alternative to commercial services like GitHub and Bitbucket. While it looks and feels very similar to GitHub, its underlying philosophy and legal structure are fundamentally different: unlike GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, Codeberg is run by a German non-profit organisation called Codeberg e.V.. It is funded by donations rather than venture capital or ads. The platform runs on Forgejo, which is a community-governed fork of Gitea. Therefore, the very software used to run the site is itself open source and transparent. And it is privacy-focused. Since Codeberg is hosted in the European Union (Germany), it adheres to strict GDPR standards. It does not track users for advertising and avoids black box AI features like GitHub Copilot. Does this sound appealing? To me it certainly did. That's why I decided to jump right in. In this introductory article, I'll show you my first baby steps, that is, registering and migrating the first GitHub repository. Signing up Registering is a very quick and pleasant experience. Visit https://codeberg.org, find and click the Register button. Just enter a username, your email address, a password, and the randomly generated number or word. Once you click on Register Account, you should receive an email with the inevitable confirmation link. Click on the link to verify your email address. You will be directed to your personal Codeberg landing