This is actually a great idea.
Github is a social site foremost, a repo host second.
Makes a lot of sense for competitors to be in the Fediverse.
Github is a social site foremost, a repo host second.
Makes a lot of sense for competitors to be in the Fediverse.
Hopefully EU regulators will take the same view if the Digital Markets Act becomes law.
"Interoperability measures were another major addition to the Parliament’s text, requiring social media and messaging apps to communicate with each other."
https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/eu-parliament-...
Or maybe not. Maybe code hosts and forges should just be code hosts and forges and I don't think embracing github's model is a good idea.
Edit: I wish cooperability between forges was easier, I just don't like the "becoming a social site" part of the idea
A big part of FOSS is community contribution. This is social in nature, fundamentally. So forges are already social in the sense that many people can contribute with bug reports, PRs, comments on issues, forking, merges, etc. These forges wouldn't be becoming more social, they're already social, all that's changing is they won't be islands anymore.