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Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by rapnie on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @04:31AM (#23549158)
> What will GitHub's replacement "cool" service be?

Hopefully this will be ForgeFed [0] standards support, allowing forges such as github, github, gitea, sourcehut, notabug, etc. to interoperate via ActivityPub-based federation.

ForgeFed opens walled gardens and allows anyone to interact with any repo with a single account regardless on where it resides. It is still in early development stage, but received funding from NLNet which will be distributed among contributors working on roadmap items [1]. Additionally feedback is requested via the Feneas forum [2] so make yourself heard :)

[0] https://forgefed.peers.community/

[1] https://notabug.org/peers/forgefed/issues/87

[2] https://talk.feneas.org/c/forgefed

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Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by jtl999 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @05:01AM (#23549324)
Will have to check this out :)

But is GitHub big enough they can just ignore it and go "bah we're too big now to care about others"?

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Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by rapnie on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @08:12AM (#23550424)
Well possible. But probably based on GH API and Actions you can still support a bunch of federation features.
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