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If there's a big migration away from Github then I really worry what I'll do about discovering interesting stuff. I spend an hour or so a week looking through m
by andybak 4y ago
If there's a big migration away from Github then I really worry what I'll do about discovering interesting stuff. I spend an hour or so a week looking through my Github feed. Something genuinely valuable will be lost once that is no longer a rich seam of new repos.
- apetresc 4y agoThe likely solution to that problem is ForgeFed, a kind of ActivityPub for federated source-control systems: https://github.com/forgefed/forgefed https://github.com/forgefed/forgefed
- Jaxkr 4y agoUnfortunately this suffers from compounded niche-ness. Even with huge interest and constant public f-ups from social media companies, the Fediverse has failed to gain any real traction (likely due to the unintuitiveness of cross-server identity). GitHub is already niche for the general populace, most people haven’t heard of it. Among programmers, alternative SCM platforms outside of GitLab and Perforce are niche. When we multiply the two together we get an incredibly small set of potential users (and the UX challenges of ActivityPub are still there).
- miloignis 4y agoThis doesn't compound though - are we trying to get the general populace who doesn't use GitHub to use something that supports ForgeFed/ActivityPub? On the other hand, it seems significantly easier - instead of trying to convert the general populace to ActivityPub, we're trying to convert technically literate developers and related peoples to use ActivityPub. Also, for what it's worth, I quite enjoy my self-hosted Mastodon account and long since stopped using Twitter and Facebook.
- remram 4y agoIs there any working implementation of ForgeFed at the moment?
- rambojazz 4y agoActivityPub does not address or solve the problem of discoverability, which is what the parent comment is talking about. So it's not a solution to that problem.
- Shared404 4y agoI quite enjoy looking at the sr.ht project listings myself: https://sr.ht/projects https://sr.ht/projects Usually I find at least one or two new things that are interesting.
- MikusR 4y agoEvery project already migrated from GitHub when Microsoft bought them.
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- andybak 4y agoYou know that's not true, so why say it?