

On one hand it is nice to see companies give back.
On the other hand, their revenue was $249 million in 2023 and their income after expenses/taxes was 8 million.
- 120,000 / 249,000,000 = 0.048% of revenue.
- 120,000 / 8,000,000 = 1.5% of their income.
It just seems like a small amount to give back for how much they are bringing in.
Ive been using codeberg(a public forgejo) and it felt more familiar coming from github/gitlab. Sourcehut wasn’t bad, but it did feel quite a bit different and i admittedly didn’t get too far past that. I do like the idea of contributing without an account though. i know that it’s a git feature to create a patch file but having a forge support it is neat.
Semi related, I do look forward to federation of forgejo which i think helps the “needing an account” somewhat. I think it’s less unreasonable to expect someone to have an account on -any federated forge- than to have an account at the specific forge my project is on.
Good article though. It did help make sourcehut make more sense than the first time i looked at it