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why not just use codeberg?
They do use the same software. I think it is a good idea they run a separate instance, so the hosting costs are automatically covered by the government for the code they develop. This also avoids the centralization on a single provider.
Digital sovereignty. Codeberg is funding development of forgejo. Forgejo will federate to other instances. So you can have your own repo and someone on another forgejo can interact remotely. So no need for centralized platforms anymore. Power of the Fediverse! :-)
Is this an ongoing project ?
I'm pretty sure it does not federate yet. Please correct me if I'm wrong though.
Correct. YET! Coming SOON! And powered by ActivityPub! It's a super hero!
So ELI5, my projects are hosted on Codeberg - they can be accessed through the NL's new instance? Are they mirrored there, or is it just a redirect to the Codeberg host? or???
This is going to federate via ActivityPub. My understanding if you'll have a centralized repo under someone or some business. But you could have your own account and fork their repo to your federated server. You can work there, push changes and it goes up.
Being AP you can follow changes, get alerts on releases, etc.
"What about forge federation?
Federation is under active development, and is considered experimental. This is because many required features−notably moderation and access control−have not yet been developed.
The Forgejo project reserves the right to make breaking changes to its federation components with no prior warning. Such changes may be “backwards incompatible” and could result in the (sub-)domain used for your Forgejo instance to be “burned”. This means that the domain will no longer be usable for ActivityPub-based federation in the future, no matter whether you set up Forgejo from scratch or choose to use other software that uses ActivityPub.
For more information on implemented features and future federation-related plans, check out the federation roadmap.
If you are interested in working on federation-related code, consider joining our federation-focused Matrix room: #forgejo-federation:matrix.org (web link)"
https://forgejo.org/ https://forgejo.org/faq/#what-about-forge-federation https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/main/FederationRoadmap.md
Instead of a company owning the monopoly on the data and the infrastructure, the ActivityPub protocol allows for federated instances to communicate with one another so while you might sign in and join through one site, you might find something interesting coming from one of the interested. Same protocol that Lemmy, Mastadon, BlueSky, PeerTube, and some other platforms run that allows for Programming.dev to communicate with Lemmy.ML of Feddit.it
And... is that the present implementation of Codeberg? Are they running ActivityPub protocol? Is the infrastructure federated?
No, they expressed intent to implement it using ActivityPub and there has been some work, but it's still far away from being useful.
Not yet, but it is their plan..
they wanna own their infra i guess. not being dependent is a good thing for a gov, and in choosing forgejo they’re basically choosing codeberg after all.