Since being on Lemmy I feel like I finally found a place I can consider more similar to my home on the web… I feel like this is the real decentralized web, not the next capitalism nightmare which is the so called “web3”…

Give me some guidance! How is the federation thing going? What are some cool projects I need to know about? I know Lemmy, Friendica, Matrix, Bookwyrm, Mastodon, but I’m sure there’s more!

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      5 months ago

      I’m not allergic to emails, I use them a lot, but I think a mailing list is not a federated github, but a mess.

      Forgejo is a much better choice in my opinion.

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          2 months ago

          to me it’s easier to look through an issue page on forgejo than a chain of mails. search is also easier: inside an issue I can ctrl+f, and across issues of a project there’s a search tool. but how would you search across all issues of a specific project (repo)?

          forgejo issues can also have tags, associated projects and milestones for organization. also pinned issues for better visibility for newbies and/or easier access to anyone.

          mailing lists are like a discord or matrix chat to me: a mostly disorganized flow of messages. probably there are ways to organize it, but doesn’t it need the explicit cooperation (e. g. in using a uniform formatting for mail titles) of all participants, including newbies?