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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

afaik none of the current options offer fedi support.

Forgejo is a Fork of Gitea made because Gitea is managed by a For-Profit company. Their code is almost identical, in fact Forgejo is a drop-in replacement for Gitea. Gitea and Forgejo are (iirc) both working on the same federation support but Forgejo seems to be further ahead since they announced that they'll upstream the Federation code to Gitea.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What does being federated mean in this case? Git is already distributed. Is it just for discovery, or do you mean for things like issues and discussions?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'll be able to (among other things) open a merge request from another instance. Gitlab and other source forges require you to create an account on each instance you want to contribute to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That's a great use of federation. Thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

exactl, issues, discussions, merge requests anything like that