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Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot
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Ngl, i don't believe in the success of the federated internet. It would certainly be nice, yet the idea somehow doesn't resonate with people that much
That could not be less of an issue. Filtering out the dummies is a feature.
And a mindset like that is exactly why federated internet will always be a niche thing. "Dummy" is an arbitrary term. Everyone is a dummy in some regard.
These are open source developers we're talking about though, and it can be argued they continue to show a distinct preference for federated (email, IRC) and proactively distributed (git) systems. Anyway, it doesn't matter what either of us think, all that matters is whether it happens or not, and time will tell. I hope it does though.
"They" who? FOSS is quite a diverse community. If anything,i've seen a great deal of projects that used discord as their communication platform. Linux is practically the only project that i can name from the top of my head, that uses a decentralized communication platform. The most popular FOSS alternative to github is Codeberg (that's my impression, at least).
I would expect Git forges (and other configuration control adjacent software) to be the easiest services to federate. Git is already decentralized, and the usual concerns regarding encryption and privacy are essentially irrelevant since everything is meant to be public anyways.
If you ask me it's strange that the federated social media (which leaks PII everywhere) and federated messaging (which is a security nightmare) have taken off but decentralized Git forges don't exist. My best guess is that the people who care are already using mailing lists?