Email indeed still works. That is in fact why I brought it up. But it still has the same deficiencies that it had before Github even existed. Which I would pred

Email indeed still works. That is in fact why I brought it up. But it still has the same deficiencies that it had before Github even existed. Which I would predict is not going to convince a lot of open source projects to suddenly start processing git patches from mailing lists now. Which is why I don't advocate that. I'm not sure I'd want to do that myself. Tangled is kind of there as an alternative that has most of the comforts of Github but is federated and can be self hosted. And there are a lot of Bluesky users that have access to it even if they might not be aware of that yet. If enough projects switch over, their contributors might follow along. If something else shows up, more power to them. But I'm not really aware of (m)any other properly federated alternatives. The beauty of federated protocols of course is that they can be bridged and connected in all sorts of ways. Some hybrid at proto / email based bridge could be pretty doable. And if somebody wants to expose at proto feeds as activity feeds, that's probably not too technically hard either. These things aren't actually mutually exclusive.