NLnet has accepted Gitea for a grant to add ActivityPub federation support to Gitea, as @dachary announced here. The post by Gitea to the Fediverse raised a lot of excitement, and it has also reached Hacker News where it is actively discussed right now:
→ Hacker News: Gitea Is Joining the Fediverse
Also on Lemmy (the federated Reddit alternative) people are delighted: https://lemmy.ml/post/140282