It’s quite easy to set up cgit, laminar and gitolite to self host.

Maybe I’m out of the loop, what happened there?

I interpreted "culture" in two ways, one technical and one administrative

Technical: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23038520 with the tl;dr of "patches over email is king, if you want fancy web stuff go elsewhere"

Administrative: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-10-31-tos-update-cryptocurre... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403780