[delf]

In "What I gave up" section author mentions his social graph. It is possible to take your social graph and collaboration history using GitSocial. It also allows cross-forge pull requests between any git hosts. All without 3rd party dependencies.

[bigfishrunning]

Thank you for this, GitSocial is a very cool piece of software!

[dominotw]

github is a social network. git hosting is just a minor feature. thats why none of these alternatives ever take off .

[bombcar]

People keep saying this, but I’ve never used the social aspects of GitHub beyond not having to create a new user for a new project.

If the projects I am interested in are elsewhere I’ll meet them where they are.

[Matumio]

Happened to me twice (a decade ago, though) that I had some niche project (one a serial terminal, another a laser cutter firmware) that was on github with users left but the maintainer long gone.

I was able to pull the graph and collect patches and bugfixes from forks, like from a fablab somewhere using the same hardware, pushing to their fork with all their other location-specific stuff. In one case I discovered like four different forks with a different fix for the same problem.

Now you could argue the "social" part wasn't working if people fixed the same issue multiple times without knowing about each other. But at least github made it possible for me to collect everything there is, review and merge it into my own repo, and then drop a comment at the original issue tracker. (Which would have gone 404 had it been self-hosted, or with registrations closed due to spam.) In both cases I eventually got feedback from other people who found my branch and used it.

[jorijn]

TIL. Thanks!

[delf]

You're welcome! I'm the creator of GitSocial, happy to answer any questions.

[xrd]

I'm very interested.

I run my own public instance of forgejo. Is this software I run on my own that syndicates other users' commits? GitHub *was* good for discovery; does GitSocial offer something similar? Are there ways I can push more of my contributions into GitSocial, or does that happen automatically when I start using it?

I think the GitSocial website would benefit from a "features and benefits" section rather than just a timeline view and demo, and I advise you to emphasize the benefits. I can see a TUI and a timeline of commits, but it seems like GitSocial is MUCH more exciting than just that.

To me, GitSocial offers freedom from corporate control and surveillance of my open source work, and that's really intriguing.

[delf]

Discovery is still in the works, but the core idea is that all collaboration data is stored in git itself (be that the project or a fork). It's git all the way down :)