In particular, this blog post is a direct response to forge-net ForgeFed (formerly known as GitPub). They want to federate and decentralize git using ActivityPub, the same technology leveraged by Mastodon and PeerTube. But get this: git is already federated and decentralized!

    • brombek
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      4 years ago

      Thanks for the link with e-mail clients! One day I was trying to send text mail from Android (to test sr.ht mailing list) and nothing could do it but I see K-9 on the list so should be doable with more effort.

      Personally I think HTML emails are a joke and I am happy to see this efforts… but this is where the mainstream is right now. When we are talking about GitHub we are talking about main stream. There is no way on earth that most devs will start using e-mail for git, but also Microsoft will never eradicate that use and many aware developers will happily use e-mail in this way.

      This is like with Mastodon, it won’t replace Twitter but it is an important network for many people and has a right and space to exist and we should protect this spaces from the toxic likes of Microsoft.