When I asked researchers if they have started planning what to do if the US gov't decides to restrict access to GitHub or other bits of US-hosted digital infra, I was hoping some people would say that they are forming federated multi-institution/multi-national collaborations because any single site in any single country is just another single point of failure. It's not "can my university spin up a self-hosted version of [thing]" but "let's figure out how to federate this stuff."

@gvwilson is there.... a federated git repository software already?

@adr @vickyrampin There is the ActivityPub-based @forgefed federation protocol for software forges which is currently being implemented in the gitea fork @forgejo and in #vervis . For progress, see the forgejo/federation issues at codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/i

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@acka47 @adr @vickyrampin @forgefed @forgejo There is the @Codeberg repository hosting service.

GitHub is owned by Microsoft, so it was already at risk of being closed for corporate reasons.

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