ForgeFed Integration and funding features #970

fr33domlover commented 2025年06月03日 11:55:30 +02:00

Hi team :) I'm still working on ForgeFed, these days mostly working on the specification itself, leaving the coding to the Forgejo Federation team. I'd really like to support project funding via the federated network (going to look into floss.fund, liberapay, github sponsors etc. and figure out the data model). Hoping to add this to the specification within my current NLnet grant (which ends in October). Obviously it has extra complications compared to a centralized forge (asking for funding on a fake copy of some popular project... small instances being unable to handle credit card stuff... etc. etc.)

Maybe this is also an opportunity to somehow integrate Snowdrift / crowdmatching into the mix?

If that sounds interesting, let's talk :)

https://linksta.cc/@pere has my email and matrix links

Hi team :) I'm still working on ForgeFed, these days mostly working on the specification itself, leaving the coding to the Forgejo Federation team. I'd really like to support project funding via the federated network (going to look into floss.fund, liberapay, github sponsors etc. and figure out the data model). Hoping to add this to the specification within my current NLnet grant (which ends in October). Obviously it has extra complications compared to a centralized forge (asking for funding on a fake copy of some popular project... small instances being unable to handle credit card stuff... etc. etc.) Maybe this is also an opportunity to somehow integrate Snowdrift / crowdmatching into the mix? If that sounds interesting, let's talk :) https://linksta.cc/@pere has my email and matrix links

wolftune commented 2025年06月03日 19:07:27 +02:00

My main initial thought is that we have accepted that our goal at this point is to get an adequate proof-of-real-world-potential for crowdmatching to the degree that others accept the premise and do any mix of collaborating with us to accelerate our work directly or building the idea into more tools and places. The vision is of a world where coordinated power of regular citizens via crowdmatching and similar brings back balance to our world so distorted by concentrated wealth. And in that sense, it seems others need to see crowdmatching in action beyond a conceptual model in order to embrace it.

So, my sense is that the federated approach is something people will help realize after seeing a centralized proof of viability.

What do you think?

We're still on Matrix of course, and happy to chat there, though we could adapt this issue into a visioning of what it would take to make sure that ForgeFed specification has what it needs so that crowdmatching is feasible within the spec...

My main initial thought is that we have accepted that our goal at this point is to get an adequate proof-of-real-world-potential for crowdmatching to the degree that others accept the premise and do any mix of collaborating with us to accelerate our work directly or building the idea into more tools and places. The vision is of a world where coordinated power of regular citizens via crowdmatching and similar brings back balance to our world so distorted by concentrated wealth. And in that sense, it seems others need to see crowdmatching in action beyond a conceptual model in order to embrace it. So, my sense is that the federated approach is something people will help realize after seeing a centralized proof of viability. What do you think? We're still on Matrix of course, and happy to chat there, though we could adapt this issue into a visioning of what it would take to make sure that ForgeFed specification has what it needs so that crowdmatching is feasible within the spec...