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Morgan

@ta180m oh wow, is Gitea just like, a federated github? A WIP? Or am I missing something
Srry I kinda live under a rock when it comes to techy stuff

12 Jul 2022 at 4:51 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.lol
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grindhold [3564]
makkin thing

@raphaelmorgan it's an existing thing that's an online Git repo like GitHub. It's already completely usable and can be self-hosted. The WIP bit is the federation.

12 Jul 2022 at 7:18 | Open on mastodon.technology
Martin Puppe

@raphaelmorgan @ta180m For now, Gitea is simply a great GitHub clone that you can self-host (or, for example, use codeberg.org for open-source). Federation is still WIP.

12 Jul 2022 at 7:45 | Open on social.anoxinon.de
rellik moo

@raphaelmorgan

it's software. git-based web hosting for code and comments and such.

so, it's like github, except it's free software that people who are not Microsoft can run for themselves. So, more like gitlab, but people seem to find gitea easier to run.

Many do run their own. But the problem is the same as, say, running your own forum software versus using Facebook/Twitter/Insta/etc: How do you get enough people signed up on your one site to make it useful & interesting?

So, this project is trying to add federation, so one doesn't need to have a thousand different accounts to interact.

@ta180m

@raphaelmorgan

it's software. git-based web hosting for code and comments and such.

so, it's like github, except it's free software that people who are not Microsoft can run for themselves. So, more like gitlab, but people seem to find gitea easier to run.

Many do run their own. But the problem is the same as, say, running your own forum software versus using Facebook/Twitter/Insta/etc: How do you get enough people signed up on your one site to make it useful & interesting?

12 Jul 2022 at 11:29 | Open on toot.cat
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@idlestate @raphaelmorgan Yeah, that's a good summary.

I usually point people to nlnet.nl/project/Gitea/ when they ask me for a high-level summary of the project.

12 Jul 2022 at 15:50 | Open on social.exozy.me
rellik moo

@ta180m

that's cool.

I was particularly trying to avoid things like the phrase used there: "anyone can host the software".

We see a lot of discussion around these parts about that kind of language, how it embodies certain assumptions about who counts as "anybody".

Usually it's not meant to be exclusive--just the opposite, in fact--but in some circles it carries a certain sense of disappointment and broken promises.

@raphaelmorgan

12 Jul 2022 at 16:56 | Open on toot.cat
rellik moo

@ta180m @raphaelmorgan

(not sure I achieved that goal but still that's what I had in mind)

12 Jul 2022 at 17:00 | Open on toot.cat
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@idlestate @raphaelmorgan I've been working on a completely different project over the past few months for a new federation protocol that uses relay servers for NAT traversal and to enable end-to-end connectivity, so that anyone can host an application server on their computer. It's basically github.com/nostr-protocol/nost on steroids. I have a repo for it but it's quite empty.

12 Jul 2022 at 17:05 | Open on social.exozy.me
Morgan

@idlestate I'd say you achieved that goal: I read "people who aren't Microsoft" as "individuals, albeit not all individuals"

13 Jul 2022 at 0:04 | Open on mastodon.lol
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