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?
Just another level of backup. Personally I tend to have:
This way I should always have 2 copies of my code that’s accessable at all times. So that there’s very slim chance that I’ll lose my code, even temporarily.