what would you suggest in its place ?

Windows 7 ??

for visibility, also codeberg is quite hostile to piracy related tools and whatnot, gitea is quite small not many instances and it gets unwanted attention. if they self-host, that’s even more risky because domain names, hosting etc can get tracked down to the owner. decentralized solutions are the best for these kind of things

like this ?

most of the links don’t even work and the ones that work are terrible, why so many upvotes ?