Comment by nightpool
20 hours ago
That sounds more like you want better decentralization, like IPFS or BitTorrent, not necessarily federation between different forge instances. I'm not familiar with any existing federated system that would be resilient to government censorship. Certainly Mastodon and Bluesky aren't.
> I'm not familiar with any existing federated system that would be resilient to government censorship.
Usenet and Matrix are notable examples.
Usenet is, Matrix isn't. Usenet achieves this with a broadcast design - every node on the network receives every message. As a result of this and being flooded with half a petabyte of new messages per day, there are approximately 3 (three) nodes (all other providers are reselling access to one of these).
The text side of Usenet is healthier, with a few gigabytes per day, and not trying to retain every message forever. Would it work if it was also the world's git forge though?