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limagnoliayesterday at 1:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

Forgejo is doing a lot of work to make the tooling decentralized, too. They are using open protocols and standards to link self hosted forges together.


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hperrinyesterday at 1:49 PM

I can’t wait for federation in Forgejo. With that, there’s honestly no reason not to host your own forge.

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spopejoytoday at 2:21 AM

Plus as TFA notes, they went full copyleft:

> As of v9.0 in August 2024 the project relicensed from MIT to GPLv3+, with the explicit goal of staying copyleft and resisting future commercial capture of the codebase.

The value of copyleft for decentralization is too often overlooked.