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By all means, -dot-com does not solve the problem GitHub has (centralization), and moving to a privately hosted GitLab re-introduces the problem GitHub mostly solved (separation).

is trying to solve this problem by defining a federation protocol for git services: github.com/git-federation/gitp

github.comforgefed/forgefedAn extension to ActivityPub for web-based Git services federation. - forgefed/forgefed
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To be clear, I do think that -dot-com is the right thing to do for now. Not because of Microsoft, but because GitLab – as a company – is as transparent as can be, and actually open source, which GitHub is not.