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[–] rglullis@communick.news 36 points 1 week ago

What advantage does a “fediverse” frontend have?

Github's dominance comes from the network effects. Everyone's on github, so if you have your project on a different repo, you won't get as many visibility. If your project is on gitlab only and someone wants to report a bug, they need to:

Find your instance.
Create an account.
Deal with an unfamiliar interface
Create the ticket
Hope it gets seen.
Potentially forget about it, unless they set up notifications.

A Federated forge solves all of that.

You follow remote projects without having to create an account in the remote instance.
You open an issue on the remote forge without having to open in an account in the remote instance, and you do it from your local server.
If you have a PR ready, the remote instance gets notified.
It makes a lot easier to separate CI/CD from source management.
It makes a lot easier to separate source management from issue tracking.
etc
etc
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