If you can’t be bothered to spend 1 minute to create an account, then you probably can’t be bothered to create an actionable bug report or a merge-able PR.
I’m not against federation in general, but gitlab isn’t twitter or reddit. It’s a utility for doing work, and I don’t see how it will do anything but grow the mountain of bloat on which gitlab is sitting.
Kind of lame that they’re wasting time on gimmicky features like this rather than stuff people have been asking for (like Conan registry support)
I self host Gitlab because I want to be in control of my private repos. If I wanted to release open source projects and collaborate with people, I would use the SaaS version. Public instances that encourage contributions like Gnome have open registration, but activating federation seems like it would just add a new layer of moderation headaches for very little real benefit.
Am I missing something? Besides marketing for Gitlab, what real benefits could this bring to users?
Is there a way for admins to block an entire instance without actually defederating? I.e. all new accounts avoid seeing posts from that instance/community, but still can see comments, messages, etc from users on that instance.
Makes the story about ChatGPT passing the bar exam a lot less impressive.
And Lemmy… stays the same