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Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    "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).

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    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?

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    That could not be less of an issue. Filtering out the dummies is a feature.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    While I know what you mean, you also need the "dummies" to encourage wider use of a platform.

    While I like and use Lemmy on mobile, it's really just not the same niche as Reddit, because of the tiny (by comparison) userbase and fractured communities across servers.

    If the Fediverse wants to take off as the dominant platform type, then we would need a larger audience willing to engage and popularize the idea... At least for "social" platforms like this.

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