cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/565123
“To preserve the community aspect of Gitea we are experimenting with creating a decentralized autonomous organization where contributors would receive benefits based on their participation such as from code, documentation, translations, and perhaps even assisting individual community members with support questions.”
Ah, fucking hell, I was really expecting them implementing federation so that GitHub would finally die.
For real! Git + federation would be so neat.
Github might still die, since Gitea is open source, so not everyone will have to participate.
That paragraph is really vague it feels like. From reading the whole article it seems to me, their main goal is to create a company that will offer support to “corporations (with revenues that are greater than some countries GDP) [which] are building on Gitea for core products without even contributing back enhancements” similar to how Red Hat does it.
The decentralized part seems to be focused on how open source contributors get paid by this company. In my view this could also be achieved via traditional payment channels like e.g. Liberapay and this might not have to mean cryptocurrency support will be directly build into Gitea itself but maybe I’m just giving them the benefit of a doubt where none is warranted.
As long as it stays open source, it should be fine since not every instance will have to participate. I know for a fact my instance, and likely Codeberg will never participate.
Still, it’s sad that they’re wasting funds on Web3.0 bullshit rather than something sensible like ActivityPub or IPFS.
If they were some publicly traded company throwing venture capital money away, I wouldn’t give a shit. But nearly all their funding is by individual user donations. Wasting that is not cool.
An enhanced enterprise version
It’s like they want to be Microsoft.
They also transferred the trademark and the domain registration to the new company, instead of the elected “project owners”. Worrying times.
