I self host various services and sites, and Gitea is one of my favorites. If this will help them grow, all power to them.

If you can make it work, providing hosted options and consulting should help with adoption and funding. Compensating contributors is something all projects have to deal with I guess.

i only see good news here!

good news! Gitea very cool project and I hope they up

To preserve the community aspect of Gitea we are experimenting with creating a decentralized autonomous organization where contributors would receive benefits based on their participation such as from code, documentation, translations, and perhaps even assisting individual community members with support questions.

Ugh, DAOs are usually linked to crypto-currencies. I severely hope they don’t get tangled up in that mess and waste development resources on this cesspool of mostly scammers.

Otherwise, not totally unexpected but hopefully it will not turn into an open-core like situation as with Gitlab in the long run.