I can’t help but notice most (all I’ve seen anyway) of the federated projects are hosted on GitHub. GitLab is also not federated, but can be self hosted and has at least discussed it.
I am fully aware of my bias for GitLab over GitHub, but I still wonder why is those things? Is there a federated source hosting project?
On the fediverse i only have to adapt to one ui, and create one account in order to interact with other instances. The same doesn’t apply to gitlab instances/sr.ht/codeberg/sourceforge etc.
still nowhere near as many as on github, and how many of those are on the official gitlab instance rather than on everyone’s selfhosted one?
i don’t get what benefit hosting your own git brings to be honest
Just another level of backup. Personally I tend to have:
This way I should always have 2 copies of my code that’s accessable at all times. So that there’s very slim chance that I’ll lose my code, even temporarily.
Same reason to host anything, I’m not beholden to some company’s whims.