Gitea looks good. What lets them a bit down imho is that they are using Cloudflare.

I’d say it depends what “best” means. There is Codeberg, Gitea, Gitlab and others. Last year or so they started Radicle (http://radicle.xyz) which is decentralized, but I don’t know how far they are.

There are very good Github alternatives.

Thank god I didn’t know it’s dead, so I have already been using it for years ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Where is this?

The site https://women-in-tech.org may also be interesting.

It’s definitely time for Searx MetaSearch or projects like https://yacy.net/