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clarify gitpub misunderstanding 

see https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub/issues/5#issuecomment-395961686 and the following comments
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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ After Microsoft bought Github, there suddenly is a movement away from Github tow
There also have been discussions on how to federate the different (currently centralised) services using an extended version of ActivityPub (see https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub) and some people build a Github clone on ZeroNet called GitCenter.
### Why Matrix and not GitPub or GitCenter
While GitPub seems interesting, they've decided to put their discussions into a private mailing list, where you need to apply to get access to, instead of putting stuff out in the public. With those things in mind, I can't make an educated guess about whether I'd be fine with the protocol itself. The benefit here is that they are trying to stick federation onto existing products, which means that the nice user experience of GitLab and Gitea might be able to federate with each other at some point.
~~While GitPub seems interesting, they've decided to put their discussions into a private mailing list, where you need to apply to get access to, instead of putting stuff out in the public. With those things in mind, I can't make an educated guess about whether I'd be fine with the protocol itself.~~ The GitPub mailing list archives are public. The benefit here is that they are trying to stick federation onto existing products, which means that the nice user experience of GitLab and Gitea might be able to federate with each other at some point. The reason against GitPub is just that I personally prefer Matrix over ActivityPub.
GitCenter is also a very nice project, but currently, short of encrypting your repository, there is no way to have private repositories. Also, having different people on a repo with different levels of access doesn't seem possible to me considering how ZeroNet works. The difference here is that they didn't try to take an existing thing and bolt decentralisation onto it, they took a decentral network and put a git app on there.