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

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