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

submitted 8 months ago by andrew@andrew.masto.host to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative
https://radicle.xyz/
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[-] hunger@programming.dev 16 points 8 months ago

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@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago

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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[-] _sora@mast.lat 1 points 8 months ago

@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

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] ErilElidor@feddit.de 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?