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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation (www.theverge.com)
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[–] grue@lemmy.world 40 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

So what you're saying is that we need federated git.

[–] kybean@pawb.social 29 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

...git is federated. i'm assuming they're talking about things like issues and runners, but i don't think that's really necessary...

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

As in the federation of Forges, like Forgejo is trying to do

[–] lime@feddit.nu 0 points 4 weeks ago

yeah that's what i don't really understand. they're like building a separate layer on top of git, when things like fossil exist.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Gitlab just said

...git is federated

If you read it again, you may find I said gitlab and not just git.

And we won't talk about how git's decentralization is nothing like the concept of federation as it's being used in this entire discussion.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 3 weeks ago

we arleady had this discussion further down a few days ago

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Yeah, IRRC thus far they only have starring (not unstarring, mind you) implemented and it's not even in main yet

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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