What advantage does a “fediverse” frontend have?

Github’s dominance comes from the network effects. Everyone’s on github, so if you have your project on a different repo, you won’t get as many visibility. If your project is on gitlab only and someone wants to report a bug, they need to:

• Find your instance.
• Create an account.
• Deal with an unfamiliar interface
• Create the ticket
• Hope it gets seen.
• Potentially forget about it, unless they set up notifications.

A Federated forge solves all of that.

• You follow remote projects without having to create an account in the remote instance.
• You open an issue on the remote forge without having to open in an account in the remote instance, and you do it from your local server.
• If you have a PR ready, the remote instance gets notified.
• It makes a lot easier to separate CI/CD from source management.
• It makes a lot easier to separate source management from issue tracking.
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