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?
I don’t think I’ve ever discovered projects by perusing GitHub. It’s always the “fork this” link on a project page or a link from an article.
I’ve learned I don’t use most of the internet the way everyone else does, so my anecdotal evidence is nothing to go by. 🤣