Post #2138690

2026-04-28 20:35 UTC

I love that codeberg works toward making it easy to start your own alternate-codeberg with forgejo; they even list out a bunch of recommended alternate instances in their "what even is codeberg" page: https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/what-is-codeberg/#what-is-codeberg-e.v.%3F but I wonder if there's an opportunity to take it beyond the technical; forgejo is only half of what makes codeberg interesting, the other half is the democratic governance I think in the interests of avoiding having all our eggs in one basket, it would be really cool to see a "how to start your own democratically-governed codeberg-like organization" tutorial we need more of these!

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@krig@goto.liten.app 2026-04-28 20:52

@technomancy@hey.hagelb.org Reading people's takes as "oh Codeberg will hit all the same issues as Github when it grows" is making me want to migrate off it back to my own Forgejo instance. I'm already mirroring, but issues and PRs aren't mirrored (I may have made a mistake when setting it up). But yeah jeez people, don't rush to replace one SPOF with another. My dream is that we had a culture of local code clubs in towns and universities that all ran federated code forges.

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@arod@social.coop 2026-04-28 21:28

@technomancy@hey.hagelb.org I would love to help with this!

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@ebel@moytura.org 2026-04-29 15:19

@technomancy@hey.hagelb.org Writing out documents for how to run things is good, but I wish more software actually had these democratic voting systems build into the software. You can give a user permission to approve a PR, but it's all or nothing. How about software that said “X people in group Y are needed to merge”, likewise with adding people to groups..

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