I’ve just found the project. And it seems very interesting take. I am adding a link to their blog entry discussion on a system to combat LLMs abuse via a web of trust.
From their site:
We envision a place where developers have ownership of their code, communities can freely self-govern and most importantly, coding can be social and fun again.
AT Protocol enables federated code-collaboration. Submit pull-requests or bug-reports to any repository hosted on any server.
I guess this could be a cool solution to having to make several usernames on different gitlab instances.
Still, I’m not sure if this is really worth it: if I want to self host I’ll just self host a git repository and that’ll be incredibly easy to setup.
The main advantage of GitHub is that it’s completely free and I don’t have to bother about self hosting it and maintaining the software.
I do see some advantage, but I’m not sure it compensates the added maintainance work.