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by gary-kim 2173 days ago
I'm a Gitea maintainer and I still do most things on GitHub rather than my self-hosted Gitea instance because a lot of open source projects as well as the people willing to help with them are there. Overall, your project tends to get more attention and contributions if it's on GitHub.

Now, we can discuss about whether or not that's a good thing and the quality of the kind of contributions you tend to get because of the lower barrier but GitHub, at least currently, still has a place in the workflow of a lot of people.

What you propose would also be really awesome. A feature like this in Gitea could be really nice. If you'd like, you can open an issue on the Gitea issue tracker [1] for the feature.

[1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/new/choose
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rapnie 2173 days ago
I use Gitea and I love it. The network effects and reach of GH are holding people back from discovering / using / contributing to other forges (gitlab, gitea, sourcehut) that are spread over numerous instances. Even just giving a star to show your appreciation for a project or a comment on the issue tracker often requires you to create a new account just for that.

Microsoft with features like these, acquiring NPM etc. and more to come, will be 'the Google of the dev world' (or they already are). Locked-in by the platform and by FOMO we'll be. And Gitea and other such fine works only used in the fringes of software development is my fear.

Big tech is causing big problems, as often discussed on HN. In this domain there are still competitors that can pick up the glove and put up a real fight. Gitlab can, but Gitea could do too. And imho here's how:

Federated forges, by adopting ActivityPub-based ForgeFed protocol [0]. I've searched your issue tracker and see [1] you are already considering adoption of parts of it.

I think federation support will greatly boost the attractiveness of Gitea as an alternative to GH.

PS. I've also heard talk to create federated LinkedIn alternatives.

[0] https://forgefed.peers.community

[1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/9045

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pferde 2173 days ago
Oh wow, this looks interesting, I hope it gets some traction. As someone who migrated away from Github the moment Microsoft bought it, I will be watching it and keeping fingers crossed.
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