@CobaltVelvet@octodon.social @noyovo@rage.love i don't think that's quite accurate; GitLab specifically advertises itself as a DevOps platform and has a large featureset specifically targeting DevOps that GitHub doesn't have; obviously they're both git repository solutions so there's a fair amount of overlap but GitHub is targeted at getting lots of people contributing to open source quickly (it is easy to get started with and use) whereas GitLab is targeted more at enterprise or professional use (much more complex and intimidating but also in many ways more powerful).

i can't speak for codeberg but the remaining platforms are primarily targeting self-hosting; you CAN self-host gitlab but it is unwieldy and difficult to do so just for personal use, whereas something like Gitea is very easy to get set up. correspondingly these platforms tend to be fairly simple with somewhat limited featuresets.