Listing the OSM XMPP community on the OSM Community Index

[Minh_Nguyen (Minh Nguyễn)]

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If one can join all (or even most of) the same communities through both Networks A and B, that gives people the incentive to move to Network B. Most will conveniently ignore that this opens them up to the inevitable mistreatment expected of private companies - as I pointed out in the earlier GitHub thread.

Here’s that thread in case anyone missed it:

OSMF should host a Forgejo/GitLab instance

This is a reboot of this thread which I started last night on the mailing list, before realizing (with the benefit of input on IRC) that it may be better off on the forum. Quoting my initial post, with minor edits - Hello. I’m sharing (and voicing my support for) a suggestion made by Simon Poole on IRC - that the OSMF set up its own Forgejo or GitLab Community Edition instance. Such an instance could use existing OpenStreetMap accounts for authentication, reducing friction for OpenStreetMap c…