I haven't used it myself yet, but there's Codeberg

I just checked Gitlab’s website and it explicitly says “No credit card required” for the free tier. Maybe you registered for the wrong tier?

Isn’t Gitea self hosted? What limits you to 5 repos?

I am self-hosting forgejo. This is a gitea fork that focus on provide a federated github if you want.

It works flawlessly with minimal amount of resources.

Sorry, I'm out of the loop. What did the OP do that caused grief with GitHub?

I have two GitLab accounts and I've never given a credit card. That may be something new they're doing to try to reduce the number of spam accounts signing up. You could use a Privacy.com card, put in whatever name and address you want.

In any case, if you're looking at sites which host your repos, you're gonna have to deal with them being able to deny you service at any time. No way around it.

I'm considering hosting a gitea instance myself, only accessible over tailscale. But I've got to keep my Githib up because I maintain a few Zsh plugins.

Codeberg is solid and really opensource

Credit card signup? Since when?

I just looked at Gitlab’s website and it explicitly says “No credit card required” for the free tier. Maybe you registered for the wrong tier?

Depending on your use case, you can just host from git itself on your machine. Git was built for distribution from the start, and come with a server: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Git-Daemon

Codeberg

sourcehut, https://sr.ht/

codeberg.org is the way to go. They forked gitea (after gitea went private/sellout) and are working on adding activitypub (the protocol that runs the fediverse) to their fork.

If you don't mind self hosting, I've used Gitea. There are no limits if you self host. I've also heard good things about self hosted Gitlab. If your looking for something remotely hosted like GitHub, though, I'm afraid I don't know of any free services I would trust.

Sounds like it’s time to get a bitbucket account