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> make a forge
> close the forge
> want to buy github

:blobhyperthink:

@dashie MS wants to buy GitHub?

Oh boy.

@dashie

FLOSS community:
> hey let's put all our eggs in this one GitHub basket
> what could possibly go wrong
> GitHub is so convenient

Microsoft:

@rysiek @dashie Well, we also seem to be putting several eggs in the GitLab basket, and larger projects host their own GitLab instance.

@codewiz @dashie comparing a solution you can self-host with a fully centralized solution is, I feel, disingenuous.

Of course we should have *more* implementations (and we do, actually), but these are problems on two different levels.

I'd like to see federated issues/pull requests between git-hosting instances thouhg.

@rysiek @dashie However, I feel that the git hosting part of GitLab is secondary to the social aspects.

Even if you could self-host Facebook, you'd still want to be on the instance where all your friends are.

I feel that GitLab self-hosting makes sense only for very large projects like GNOME and Freedesktop, and even those incur a small loss of visibility for not being on the larger GitLab instance.

rysiek ✅ @rysiek

@codewiz @dashie that is true. That's why I'd love to see federated issues and all of that.

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