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Github definitely not. Bitbucket likely too since they sell it as a primary function IIRC. Gitlab would considering they have open core and it would make inter

• sametmax 8y ago
  The price of a github account for a company is often far less than the cost of maintening gitlab: people are expensive, and they come with taxes while spending are deductible. My guess is that github is not risking much.
  • zaarn 8y ago
    Well, people do maintain gitlab instances, so it's worth something to them. There is lots of reasons to do, usually corporate, sometimes activist. GitHub would likely not risk much losses but people not using GitHub would immensely benefit either way, if GH implements it or not.
• cheshire_cat 8y ago
  There are several issues on Gitlab that deal with the question of federation and building a network of the seperate instances: - Discover self-hosted projects from gitlab.com [0] - Implement cross-server (federated) merge requests [1] - Share events externally via ActivityPub [2] Afair Gitlab Enterprise edition currently supports some forms of federation. [0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/36025 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/36025 [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013 [2] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/44486 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/44486