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@clhendricksbc In the case of github, their VC-funded business model depends on centralisation.
In the case of Gitlab at least the software is open or free and we can break with that centralisation.
The main problem with that is that Gitlab can be self-hosted (and therefore be used in a decentralised way), but Gitlab instances are not federated.
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@Matt_Noyes @clhendricksbc Ideally, what would be interesting to see, in my opinion, would be more Gitlab instances plus some code that in theory could enable Gitlab work in a federated way, in ways similar to Mastodon. (yet inexistent at this time, as far as I know)
It could be something following the model that @Gargron designed, beginning with mastodon.social, and then encouraging horizontal growth of the network instead of the growth of one instance.
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@Gargron @clhendricksbc @Matt_Noyes
A big part of the reason so many people use github is because it makes projects and code discoverable, which is obviously great to have for many reasons, for whoever needs the code.
You don't get discoverability if Gitlab instances are self-hosted, decentralised, but "unfederated".
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