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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 12-Nov-2018 23:44:38 EST Strypey

   It occurs to me that one of the services that makes GH attractive to projects is that it lowers the barriers to drive-by participation (esp. user feedback, filing bugs etc), while protecting them from spammers and griefers. Moving to a self-hosted/ community-hosted dev platform either raises barriers to participation (I need an account on every repo site I want to contribute on), or opens the project up to time-wasters (human or bot).

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 12-Nov-2018 23:49:12 EST Strypey

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      Maybe part of the solution could be to have organizations like FSF, SFC, OSI etc provide genuine users with an identity credential they can use to authenticate on any free code development repo site? This would be a benefit of membership of those orgs, and make sustaining a membership more attractive. We keep looking for trustless solutions to distributed infrastructure. Maybe we need to start valuing trust again?