Technology

Just like the Fediverse, it's actually better and healthier if more people/groups/nations host their own (whether public or private). More diversity, less centralization.

The lack of clean and transparent federation between them is certainly inconvenient but is not a permanent roadblock, it is simply a known and well-understood technical problem that work is ongoing to solve. git itself already has very mature support for complete decentralization and decentralized workflows, it's all of Github's feature layers like user accounts, PR management, issue tracking, CI/CD and the various other workflow and project management layers that may need to be connected and federated across the different Forgejo-based platforms (and hopefully other platforms too in the future). Users and permissions and PRs and issue reporting are among the most critical parts, and I think they are looking at Fediverse's ActivityPub as a method for enabling much of that.

The more large organizations that choose to build their own viable, permanent and financially stable Forgejo platforms, the more attractive and necessary proper federation between them becomes, and the more assured it will become the first-class feature it needs to be.

We are not building a mere Github replacement that drops into its centralized place, wears its shoes and follows its same path to inevitable corporate capture and enshittification. We are building a decentralized standard to be the democratic foundation for future software development and collaboration that no one can, should, or will be able to exclusively control. It's not done yet, but this the right way for it to start so that something like SourceForge (for those old enough to remember that trainwreck) or Github never becomes a problem again.

Another problem is language or languages, EU has what? 15 different languages and none of them will agree which language should be primary because not everyone speaks English, for me it wouldn't be a problem i'm from the Balkans, i work and live in Germany and use German at home and at work and mainly use English on my phone, PC and while watching movies, shows, etc. so for me there is a choice of 3 different languages while my wife can speak only German so how would we all agree what language should be the primary for this project?

A) It's forgejo, so any forgejo instance (including Codeberg) can access it (since it's federated.

B) Coordinating something like this eu-wide is much more difficult than in just the netherlands.