Isn’t Git kind of naturally federated in a broad sense just by the way it works? As long as someone has the source code they can always create another Git repo and share it.
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aniki@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
aniki@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Oh okay, how cool. You have piqued my interest, I will check out Gitea for now for sure l. Thanks for the explanation.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Kids these days…
Linus Torvalds rather famously managed Linux patches for decades without a centralized server.
bemenaker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Absolutely false.
min_fapper@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
Lol no it wouldn’t. The guy doesn’t want to commit resources to fight this, since it’s a hobby that’s not gaining him anything.
Unless y’all give him enough money to mount a legal defense, no amount of fancy tech will help
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh god.
Federation is going to become the next blockchain thing that people have no idea what it does but insist it’ll fix everything, isnt it?
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
it already is.
Venat0r@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Except the use case it was designed for is actually used…
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I think he only means in a literal sense. If the thing is copied a ton of times to several repositories, it becomes harder to expunge it entirely. Legal battles notwithstanding.