I think that federated gitlab instances could be a good next step forward for becoming independent from big companies.
At the moment I host a lot of my code to Github because of discoverability, but I do not feel comfortable with depending on Microsoft for this service. Gitlab is a self hosted Git server, but there is no way to federate the instances like on Lemmy. Are there any projects that deal with this?
You know I had the same feelings about Reddit and yet here we are …
Edit: to clarify - same feelings from point of trust, I mean Reddit is a friendly website, what could go wrong?