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| Forgejo Federation Design Overview | 2023-01-09T21:19:27Z | true | A deep dive into the design of Forgejo federation | post |
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This post describes the details of the design of Forgejo federation.
Identity
Forgejo, like most ActivityPub implementations, uses WebFinger to resolve @user@instance.com usernames to IRIs.
Likewise, Forgejo signs all activities using HTTP signatures
An interesting application of this is private repository federation.
Common data format
A lot of seemingly difficult problems like federated pull requests, mirroring entire projects including issues, and migrations are
F3, ForgeFed vocabulary
Mirroring
Migrations
Consistency
Write about primary-secondary replication for federated collaborators
Performance/scalability
Redirect Git pushes
Moderation
Blocking users and instances
Rate-limiting and spam
UI
Better AP UI? Fetch data from original instance instead of your instance? Performance problems?