@JulesIsWeird Now, with open-core you have to trust the project not to go evil, but gitlab has a good track record and gitlab core is pretty feature-complete (there's issue boards and @ mentions and CI which is mostly the essential community-management toolkit)

Gitea is fully FOSS and easier to self-host than gitlab, but most small projects can't afford to self-host, and, well, projects living on github are just easier to find, so gitlab.com would be a good solution for them