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Forge Federation Myths

Anthony Wang — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 13:08:06 -0500

Since I haven’t blogged about forge and Gitea federation in a while, I thought it would be nice to tear down some strawman misconceptions about forge federation.

So first of all, if you’re one of those people that thinks Git and GitHub are the same thing, please exit the premises now. Alright, got that out of the way, now on to the real deal.

Git is already decentralized

If that’s true, then why does everyone use GitHub?

Where are All the Forge Federation Developers?

Anthony Wang — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 14:25:06 -0500

There’s a famous story that during a conversation about flying saucers in 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi blurted out, “But where is everybody?”

This post isn’t about extraterrestrials, but rather forge federation developers. (Fortunately, we do have convincing evidence that forge federation developers do actually exist in the universe) The SFC’s recent #GiveUpGitHub campaign has shined the spotlight on an long-standing problem in the libre software world. So much free, open-source, libre code is hosted on a hostile profit-oriented proprietary platform, and we need solutions now.

Gitea Actually Joins the Fediverse

Anthony Wang — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 21:57:29 -0500

So I don’t know if you remember this or not, but on the first anniversary of the January 6 US Capitol riots, the Gitea Mastodon account made an announcement on the fediverse that changed my life. (Yeah, I know the January 6 riots have nothing to do with Gitea, but with all the news about the January 6 investigation lately, that’s what I think of instantly when I hear that date) Gitea was joining the fediverse! 🎉

Gitea Federation... Coming Soon to an Instance Near You!

Anthony Wang — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:48:00 -0500

Alright, so you’ve probably been waiting for years for Gitea federation and are just burning to find out when it’ll be released. After all, it’s been four years since work started on ForgeFed, and federation has proven to be far from trivial. So what’s been done so far and what still needs to be worked on?

If you’ve been following the Gitea federation story recently, you’ve probably heard about the NLnet Gitea grant. The milestones for that were recently published, and it looks pretty doable! Even better, the first two milestones are almost finished, and the third is being worked on at the moment. The others all seem straightforward too, right?