As I understand it, forgejo came about when someone maneuvered to consolidate control of gitea. So I guess if you stay you may eventually become subject to various anti-user practices that non-open software tend to gravitate toward

It both reduces chance of infection and severity of infection, and furthermore reducing the symptoms makes it less transmissible because the congestion symptoms are part of how it moves from person to person (coughing and such). The vaccines aren’t perfect because covid can evolve so quickly but they’re miles better than nothing