I’m just gleefully watching birdsite go down in flames and wondering, how do we prep the fedi ground for when this happens on fb? Pixelfed is a totally obvious alt to insta, peertube clear victor over yt, and no one wants to replace tic-toc. But I’m intrigued that fb alt options are diverse and generally none well adopted.
Also, for the coders and academics on here, I’m wondering when we start to galvanise protest of proprietary and non-federated repositories. The tech is *out there* e.g. gitea instance federation being worked out and CKAN server federation concept developed more than a half decade ago. But we keep allowing our orgs to pay license fees for walled gardens rather than embrace commons… strange….
For those who are curious about this, see more on CKAN federation here: https://ckan.org/features/federate/ and git activitypub federation here: https://discourse.gitea.io/t/forgefed-federation-in-gitea/1157 #librarians take note!
Worth noting for those who are curious about running your own self hosted git repo which can federate with friends, a gitea fork called forgejo (which runs codeberg) is getting pretty close: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59
I wonder what folks out there are doing for code repo? I’ve noticed a lot of migration away from now-Microsoft owned GitHub to places like codeberg. Looks like self-hosted platforms getting closer to federation and social sharing in a decentralized way… Am currently on gitea, but looking around and wondering. What are you on?!