I joined Lemmy back in 2020 and have been using it as qaz@lemmy.ml until somewhere in 2023 when I switched to lemmy.world. I’m interested in Linux, FOSS, and Selfhosting.

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  • qaz@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldForgeFed
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    11 days ago

    I’m personally really excited about being able to effectively move control away from central hubs such as GitHub ensure a different model of governance.

    GitHub is currently okay, it’s a bit slow, the UI ain’t that great but it works. However, it is a prime target for enshittification. It’s a large platform (and besides that also owned by a large public company) with an extremely large userbase, with a non-trivial cost to leave. People are simply much more likely to contribute to a project if they 1. can easily find it 2. can access it without having to create an additional account 3. have a functional, familiar user interface. Federation solves 2 of those issues and perhaps also point 3 since Forgejo is afaik still one of the only ones to support it.