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?
Legacy I would say. Github used to be the first and the best.
Now they are literally selling out work of open source developers with copilot, but their service is honestly good
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Sure, but github should have released co-pilot open source. It became what it is by selling itself as the paladin of open source, it gained the open source community’s trust in this way. And now its reselling the result of that trust without redistributing it back. It is betraying the fundamental values that made github what it is. We all know it is Microsoft fault, like the recent red hat issues are IBM fault. Still pretty shameful
That’s actually one of the reasons I’m partial to GitLab, it’s all open. Including their version of copilot.
I know this is the answer, but I’m sad when the answer is “because we’ve always done it that way”.