Forgejo, the software project powering Codeberg, is working on adding federation but it's got a long way to go before it's a usable feature

The closest I found that works is: https://hackaday.com/2024/03/16/radicle-an-open-source-peer-to-peer-github-alternative/

https://radicle.xyz/

It took a LONG time to get set up on one of my systems. It worked! Unfortunately, I found that just having git by itself was fine for my purposes. And most people are throwing in behind codeberg which is fine by me.

Huh. Gitlab just said it's too hard with their cut staffing numbers and they're not doing federation.

I mean, this is more-or-less how the Linux kernel is managed. Linus just has final say on what gets released.