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I am already self-hosting a lot of things for 15+ years now, including git, but I am looking for a solution like Github that is federalized (not Gitlab or the like).

I want people to be able to open issues, PRs, comment, fork or star without having to create an account on my server. Is there anything like that?

I saw radicle.xyz but I am not sure if that is what I want. Basically a lightweight git+ActivityPub + web frontend is what I am looking for. I think. No CI/CD or other fancy features required.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AFAIK it’s a planned feature for Forgejo

[–] eodur 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the protocol is called ForgeFed and from what I recall it will be added to Forgejo, then ported upstream to Gitea. Supposedly GitLab has commented on adopting it in the future as well.

[–] mvirts 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's just extend SMTP instead

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mail is one of the most insecure protocols out there

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gitea is looking into joining ActivityPub as the core framework is called.

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

Is it not a big no-no to use Gitea now since the commercial takeover? From what I understand, Forgejo is the safe option and I am glad to hear from the other comments that it is getting support for that through ForgeFed!

[–] DARbarian 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Excuse me for being uninformed, but what is this about a corporate Gitea takeover?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is a bit hyperbole. The domains and trademarks where transferred to a for-profit entity (owned by the main devs) and all that was done in relative secrecy which didn't go down well with the open-source community.

However for the time being nothing much changed and Forgejo is more of a "just in case" soft-fork.

[–] Sudo 4 points 1 year ago

They switched to commercial model last year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitea#2022

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

AFAIK Gitea incorporated as a for-profit (which was supported), but there was some perceived(not intended to throw shade on any side here, just keeping it neutral) shady-ness from the perspective of the community. You can read more here in the open letter: https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/

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

There was some drama with the main Forgejo developer that caused a bunch of drama and prompted him to "reboot" the community. I found it on HN a while back, but the drama itself happened in issues and discussions under the Forgejo project.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I know we're using codeberg for kbin.social

It's been a pretty decent experience so far, similar to GitHub but a little more basic. The markdown editor is my biggest gripe so far, it has weird backspace handling on mobile

[–] thejoker8814 3 points 1 year ago

Codeberg is using Forgejo, basically Gitea. You can change the editor, if you like with other editors if you host Forgejo or Gitea yourself. Features like CI/CD can be deactivated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a federated version control system makes so much sense and I hope it will break open GitHub's (nearly) monopoly.

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

Completely agree! Please note that git itself is federated, well distributed, it's the rest of the stuff on top that needs to be fixed.

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