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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦20h ago

RE: https://metalhead.club/@thomas/116301990188175266

2010: Let's make GitHub the new SourceForge! The default place for FLOSS code.

2026: Let's make GitHub the new SourceForge! The awkward outdated cringe code hosting has-been.

(but this time, ideally, we end up with many federated forges, one could hope!)

#FLOSS

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Stéphane Bortzmeyer 20h ago

@rysiek I read it as "move everything to Codeberg so we do the same error of centralizing everything, once more"

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jon r 20h ago

@bortzmeyer
I remember a story about some Forge, jo, and they wanted to federate.
Even GitLab reopened their ActivityPub issue, but progress is slow and the actual need for ForgeFed-edarion seems to be not so pressing, after all?
@rysiek

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Stéphane Bortzmeyer 20h ago

@yala @rysiek All my code is at Framagit and by far rhe most common complain I hear from people who wanted to contribute (bug report, pull requests, etc) is "I don't want to create yet another account and to have to use yet another forge".
So, yes, federation is very important.

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Charly Coste 🇫🇷

@bortzmeyer @yala @rysiek Worse than having to create an account on some random GitLab instance is being asked to do it again because the one you had was deleted for not being used often enough.