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Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative (andrew.masto.host)

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Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative
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[–] hunger 14 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Serious question: What is the point?

Just push into half a dozen mirrors and you are pretty censorship resident without the crypto voodoo put on top of git.

Github has one huge value: Discoverability of a project. This is even worse than hiding your project in one of the smaller forges... nobody can remember the mess of letters you need for this.

[–] onlinepersona 5 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Do you think it's good that the majority of code is hosted on a proprietary service? Do you think it's good that that service is centralised? Do you think it's good that if you want to provide an alternative to that service, you create another island with a different ecosystem that cannot communicate with the other island?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@onlinepersona @hunger have you tried hosting your own git repo? I never thought I'd live to see git, of all things, being considered "proprietary service". Also Hunger suggested using more than one server, which means it's not completely centralized.
There's really no meed for p2p crypto magic here, git just works

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

git is open source. Github as in the repository hosting service is owned by Microsoft, a company for whom the phrase "for profit" isn't severe enough a description.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

But it couldn't be easier to just set up a second remote, that isn't GitHub with just vanilla Git, if you don't trust Microsoft (Or even fully switching to a different remote). Why is there a need for something else in addition?

[–] onlinepersona 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if you're making a bad faith argument or genuinely didn't understand I was referencing github.

Also, where is the crypto magic? The website doesn't mention crypto at all...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also, where is the crypto magic?

The sixth point in the original comment links to the cryptocurrency association.

[–] onlinepersona 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So there's nothing in the code about crypto then?

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