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馃摙 CALL TO FEDIVERSE
Tons of discussion about seeking alternatives to #Microsoft#Github, now that it has become part of MS's #AI division.
What made GH so popular, we should ask? Well, a ton of features and services on top of #git and a huge platform that makes exploring millions of #FOSS projects easy, are among the reasons I suppose.
The #ActivityPub @forgefed project funded by #NGI0 via @nlnet is creating open standards to provide the same, native to the #fediverse!
Yet they need HELP.
@do1mj @forgefed @nlnet @alper
Gitlab has an open epic issue to implement #ActivityPub. Though initially it looked like it had backing from within the corporation, recently that appeared to have waned when the epic was prematurely closed. Under pressure from the public the epic was later reopened, but Gitlab making clear it should be fully community-contributed and gives no priority to it for their own product development.
Could you explain what the relationship between forgefed and codeberg is?
#Codeberg is a developer platform based on the #Forgejo code forge software.
#ForgeFed is a protocol specification, an extension of #ActivityPub.
Any #forge can implement ForgeFed and become part of the #fediverse, as it were. This allows devs to interact with projects on remote forge servers as if they were part of their local hub. They can create issues, discuss them, create PR's, define teams.
The social network #Github provides to discover #FOSS projects is now federated.
Now #Codeberg and #Forgejo are among the first forge projects that consider implementing #ForgeFed. They are already busy implementing basic #ActivityPub support at this moment.
Roughly speaking our grassroots commons faces 3 challenges..
1. Tyranny of small decisions. Uncoordinated action makes it impossible to collaborate at scale
2. Herding of cats. Attempts to govern fiercely independent autonomous people doomed to fail
3. Tragedy of the commons. Unsustainable imbalance between value extraction and delivery
What ailed @forgefed for a long time is that everyone is interested for #ForgeFed to become the real deal, yet no one was working on it, no feedback.
The https://forgefed.org developers are extending the specs, and asking for feedback in the issue trackers on #Codeberg, but none is forthcoming.
As a result large crowds root for @forgefed #forge federation to come along, but it will not happen anytime soon at the current pace.
@nlnet through #NGI0 provide funding to #ForgeFed, #Vervis, #Anvil, and also #Forgejo and these people are bravely forging ahead. More community help is needed though.
Same is true for #Gitlab's federation efforts.
See also this topic on #SocialHub#ActivityPub dev community, with links to various #ForgeFed related issue trackers to participate in:
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/call-for-action-help-draw-attention-to-forgefed/5480
The attention to #ForgeFed has likely led to the following #HackerNews submission being discussed on the front page:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44873341#44896900
cc @forgejo @Codeberg bunch of discussion mentioning you there.
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