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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 16:54:10 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

   • Codeberg.org
   Are there platform cooperatives other than @codeberg open to the general public that offer general-purpose git hosting?
   • Your friendly 'net denizen (cstanhope@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 17:59:04 UTC Your friendly 'net denizen

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     • Sam Whited

     @sam has been working to get one started that is US based. (I have been very little help with that. :/ )

     @clacke

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 18:11:21 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Codeberg.org
     In the words of @codeberg themselves, this is why I am asking:
     
     > Recently, someone on Mastodon said the world needs many Codebergs, and I can fully second that mission. [ . . . ]
     
     > To reach an ultimate level of efficiency for Codeberg, I expect we require times 5 to 50 our current user count, that is 100k to 1 million. And if you fear the monopoly: this still leaves room for 73 to 730 instances if we want to replace Microsoft GitHub alone.
     
     blog.codeberg.org/community-ma…
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   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 21:48:18 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @clacke While I agree that orgs like Codeberg are a step forward (a sorely needed step), unless they federate, they will still lead to one forge to rule over all others.
     
     I think forge-type software needs to work toward a model where code hosted on the forge is not privileged over code hosted on developers' machines.
     
     The importance of centralized control by servers needs to be reduced.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 23:36:20 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @lnxw48a1 Yes, forges need to become less centralized and less critical to a repo.
     
     ForgeFed is one step, so that you can contribute between forges. Putting the issues and discussions in the repo, so that you can back them up, contribute offline and trivially migrate, would be another important step.
     
     @codeberg
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   • Sam Whited (sam@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Feb-2022 03:50:50 UTC Sam Whited

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     @cstanhope @clacke Yes! We've got an initial test instance up at a temporary domain, but it's been a bit quiet lately and we haven't been able to get a meeting to decide on actually launching or buy a proper domain or anything. https://mesh.coop/ You'd be welcome to join our mailing list if you're interested in helping us get started: https://groups.io/g/codeforge/topics

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Feb-2022 09:45:18 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Sam Whited
     @sam @cstanhope Is mesh.coop on fedi?
     
     What structure does it or will it have? 501(c)(12) (TIL), member-owned corporation or something else?
   • Sam Whited (sam@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Feb-2022 18:34:16 UTC Sam Whited

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     • Your friendly 'net denizen

     @clacke @cstanhope (at least to start I suspect we want to find a fiscal host and avoid incorporating ourselves, just to make it easy; once we have it up and running and some money in the bank, then we could start talking about incorporating. But that's just my thoughts, obviously it's not up to me alone :) )

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   • Sam Whited (sam@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Feb-2022 18:34:17 UTC Sam Whited

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     @clacke @cstanhope Not on Fedi (yet?); it can have whatever we, the cooperators want it to have! We haven't gotten that far yet.

   • Hyolobrika (hyolobrika@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Feb-2022 19:04:20 UTC Hyolobrika

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     @clacke Not formally a co-operative but https://notabug.org

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Feb-2022 19:06:18 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Sam Whited
     @sam @cstanhope That sounds like a good idea.