We Ran Our Own Infrastructure

Another revisionist myth. SourceForge (the first forge!) wasn’t “our own”, nor was BitBucket (mentioned by author), or Gitorious (which was famously archived btw). or sourceware, or …

I guess we can call ftp servers like the gnu ones “ours”. But that’s about it as far as where congregations of relevant projects lived.

Did some projects self-host with trac, cgit, mailman, …etc? Yes, of course. Just like how some projects self-host today with gitea/gitlab/…etc.

Activitypub (the fediverse protocol) integration in open forges has the potential to provide most of the interoperability of a centralised system in a distributed environment

did a GitHub write this?

There are public archives. See Zenodo. Not sure what the author is complaining about.

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