Found this news via Michael Downey's toot (admin of FLOSS.social:
Cool cool, @Gargron moving all @Mastodon project discussion behind a proprietary walled garden that requires agreement with Microsoft terms of service (and their analytics tracking). Now THAT makes a ton of sense. 🤦♂️
#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #privacy
I suggest the most useful place to provide feedback is the Discourse thread, if you are a member of the Mastodon community forum.
It is a pity because there's interesting stuff going on that goes the fedi direction. I replied to Michael:
What is interesting is that both for #Discourse and for #Gitea there are plans to add federation support. In Gitea the first commits are already made after @forgefriends graciously made some money available from their own project budget. AFAIU they did not get @NGIZero grant, but will continue nonetheless.
And as for Discourse. The Pavilion plugin builders have shown interest to start in 2022 their #Fediverse entry. See Discourse will be joining the Fediverse
I hope both these projects do commence, as I consider them both very important for the #Fediverse as a whole. In any case they should get any encouragement and help we can give if only spreading the word on these intentions, like I do now.
Consider joining the Forgefriends community if you are passionate to help break code forge walled gardens, specifically Github.
This all depends on who helps contribute. The Gitea core team have a huge workload. Their NLnet funding grant was rejected, which may cause a delay. Then at the forgefriends community anyone is welcome and there is both technical and non-technical work to do. Forgefriends started with a focus on Gitea, but they intend to move on to Gitlab, Sourcehut and any other forge who wants to become a "forge friend" and be native part of the fediverse.