GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)

blitblitblit wrote: post #2

This project really needs more attention. Would have resolved the issue we had earlier today. Some others ideas: * Write a client in C, JS sucks * Make a web-frontend for this so average users can jump on quickly.

There’s also git-ssb

https://github.com/noffle/git-ssb-intro

Re: GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)

#5

Post by makz » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 2:31 AM UTC

Looks like a good fit for youtube-dl

Re: GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)

#6

Post by nyolfen » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 2:36 AM UTC

another promising project: https://pijul.org/

Re: GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)

#7

Post by m-p-3 » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 3:06 AM UTC

And another angle, if you want to store a snapshot of a repo on IPFS https://github.com/whyrusleeping/git-ipfs-rehost

Re: GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)

#8

Post by adammenges » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 3:19 AM UTC

makz wrote: post #5

Looks like a good fit for youtube-dl

Yeah it’s an apt time. Of course I’m not sure the legal request will stick.

Re: GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)

#9

Post by cjbprime » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 3:54 AM UTC

Hi! I'm the GitTorrent author. It feels strange to have it show up on the front page whenever GitHub does something bad, more than five years later.

Bitcoin and BitTorrent v1 were plausible substrates in 2015, but no longer. I think Radicle (https://radicle.xyz) is the project most deserving of attention at the moment.

The hardest thing about such a project is economic: how do you handle issue/comment spammers? Or someone creating as many accounts as they can? How do you incentivize someone to mirror your repo? Or to build you a delta to satisfy your `git pull`, without making the network fall over when someone realizes they can ask you to spend infinite CPU building packfiles for them? And what happens when someone forgets their password or loses their private key? This space was a humbling experience in the necessity of incentive alignment for me.

Re: GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)

#10

Post by inquirerofsorts » Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 5:06 AM UTC

makz wrote: post #5

Looks like a good fit for youtube-dl

The maintainers should probably just run their own git server as a hidden service, change their git name/email/signing keys and be done with it.

Going after youtube-dl so publicly has a solid Streisand effect. Feel as though the lawyers aren't going to give up easily on this one and will hound them one way or another.

Regardless, there is some github alternatives available through tor:

Darktea: http://it7otdanqu7ktntxzm427cba6i53w6wlanlh23v5i3siqmos47pzh...

Rootgit: http://rootgit4rghbuenb.onion/explore/repos

And on I2P:

http://git.volatile.i2p/

http://git.psi.i2p