I can’t help but notice most (all I’ve seen anyway) of the federated projects are hosted on GitHub. GitLab is also federated, but can be self hosted and has at least discussed it.
I am fully aware of my bias for GitLab over GitHub, but I still wonder why is those things? Is there a federated source hosting project?
Once you move off the free tier, GitLab is quite expensive in comparison. That might be part of it.
Open source projects enjoy free gitlab ultimate or whatever it’s called
I’ve never moved off the free tier, even when self hosting. Although I did get to use a paid version at a previous job and I admit some of those features were nice.
Are they paying on GitHub?