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I see no technical reason why GitHub could not have been implemented as a federated system. Should we even consider convenience of a service that has serious ethical issues?

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I wonder how difficult it would be to federate gitlab or gogs. Set up something like OAuth so you can log into anyone's gitlab (provided they have to set to public) and be able to fork/clone/branch to your "home" instance of it. Have an interface akin to github but have it pull in data from other gitlab instances you linked/subscribed to. You could also run some sort of public opt-in indexing service for discoverability of new projects, but the code would be hosted on your own instance.

I'd much prefer that over github, as my account sits idle there, while my gitlab gets plenty of use. I suppose it's something I should look into.

More thought about federation of GitLab here http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions...

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