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!

  • DessalinesA
    14·
    4 years ago

    These articles ignore the main reasons people use github (or any git host), things like:

    • Project discovery
    • Issue tracking - by far the most important thing that is not built into git.
    • Watching / favoriting
    • Having a project readme as a publicly available homepage.
    • Publicly available git history, not something I have to join a mailing list for.

    These are the things an activitypub git host would help to decentralize. Yes git has some helper tools around being able to send your commits over email, but it replaces none of the features above.