The Starlight Network
Alright, here's an idea for Contributing that we didn't share before: Signing up to forge.starlightnet.work using Codeberg

Upsides we see:
- we don't have to host email
- you can login using an existing account of yours
- you can relatively easily contribute to makko, StarlightOS, misfits or other projects

Downsides:
- Network effect kicks our ass (less people are gonna visit our forge when they're already active on GitHub or Codeberg mostly; Many might forget)
- While Codeberg is pretty good at preventing spam, it's not fool-proof; We might be inviting spam onto our Forgejo instance

What do y'all think of this approach?
#StarlightNetwork

~alexia
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Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

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Show threadKett‮Mar 2
oh! that's a thing you can do? awesome!
Show threadThe Starlight NetworkMar 2
@kett You can! As a demo, you can visit git.gay and go to the Register page

For Forgejo administrators, it's about creating an Application on the Codeberg end, then under /admin in your forgejo instance setting up Codeberg as an oAuth2 Identity Provider
git.gay

git.gay is a collaboration platform made to empower queer developers to create and share their projects with the world.

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Show threadziviMar 2

@the you don’t have to host email period if you do away with the email requirement that does jack shit good for anyone

it’s only a somewhat tamer version of requiring phone numbers. your service has no business needing an email address from everyone

Show threadThe Starlight NetworkMar 2
@zaire Sigh.

Do you not think we've been like, doing that option up until this point? The reason we 'have to do it' is because that's how registration and password resetting in Forgejo works.
Show threadThe Starlight NetworkMar 2
@zaire

And if you haven't noticed somehow, we've been explicitly trying a lot of different shit to avoid the E-Mail requirement because hosting mail is pain. In addition to the fact that we'll just be storing data we don't want.

Do you think we want this? Or did that not cross your mind?