In "What I gave up" section author mentions his social graph. It is possible to take your social graph and collaboration history using GitSocial. It also allows cross-forge pull requests between any git hosts. All without 3rd party dependencies.

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bigfishrunning 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Thank you for this, GitSocial is a very cool piece of software!

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jorijn 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

TIL. Thanks!

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delf 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You're welcome! I'm the creator of GitSocial, happy to answer any questions.

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xrd 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm very interested.

I run my own public instance of forgejo. Is this software I run on my own that syndicates other users' commits? GitHub *was* good for discovery; does GitSocial offer something similar? Are there ways I can push more of my contributions into GitSocial, or does that happen automatically when I start using it?

I think the GitSocial website would benefit from a "features and benefits" section rather than just a timeline view and demo, and I advise you to emphasize the benefits. I can see a TUI and a timeline of commits, but it seems like GitSocial is MUCH more exciting than just that.

To me, GitSocial offers freedom from corporate control and surveillance of my open source work, and that's really intriguing.

	▲	delf 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Discovery is still in the works, but the core idea is that all collaboration data is stored in git itself (be that the project or a fork). It's git all the way down :)

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dominotw 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

github is a social network. git hosting is just a minor feature. thats why none of these alternatives ever take off .

	▲	bombcar 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		People keep saying this, but I’ve never used the social aspects of GitHub beyond not having to create a new user for a new project. If the projects I am interested in are elsewhere I’ll meet them where they are.