Is there really nothing like BitTorrent for git, or have we just not heard about it because of GitHub's network effects? It feels like this problem was solved long ago for binaries.
There is! https://radicle.dev :)
We need a federation of forges
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#12tangled is a really cool project; the most important feature it provides is that it is jujutsu first.
I assume you don't mean Tangled is an expert martial artist. Can you translate this to not-a-dev-but-uses-git?
jujutsu is a different version control system: https://www.jj-vcs.dev/
Re: We need a federation of forges
#13tangled is a really cool project; the most important feature it provides is that it is jujutsu first.
I assume you don't mean Tangled is an expert martial artist. Can you translate this to not-a-dev-but-uses-git?
They’re referring to the Jujutsu VCS https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/
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#14"There are 4 standards that try to solve this problem, its too many, we need one that finally unifies it all and solves the problem once and for all"
"There are 5 standards that..."
Jokes aside, I think we need stronger arguments as to why something like activity pub is not good enough to solve the problem instead of trying to come up a new way of solving the "decentralized comms" problem.
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#15Slight tangent: the post says that github is crumbling. Can someone get me up to date on what's going on please? Admittedly I'm not following tech drama particularly closely, but I thought I'd have heard if a major thing like github was going down the chute.
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#16"There are 4 standards that try to solve this problem, its too many, we need one that finally unifies it all and solves the problem once and for all" "There are 5 standards that..." Jokes aside, I think we need stronger arguments as to why something like activity pub is not good enough to solve the problem instead of trying to come up a new way of solving the "decentralized comms" problem.
its linked in the original post as well, but here is an explanation of why activitypub is not a good fit for this problem, by the authors of ForgeFed themselves: https://forgefed.org/blog/actor-programming/
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#17"There are 4 standards that try to solve this problem, its too many, we need one that finally unifies it all and solves the problem once and for all" "There are 5 standards that..." Jokes aside, I think we need stronger arguments as to why something like activity pub is not good enough to solve the problem instead of trying to come up a new way of solving the "decentralized comms" problem.
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#19I was just thinking about forge federation this morning. It'd be nice to base the federation on email, which has been working fine for decades (boring tech and all that), and build UIs on top of it to facilitate collaboration.
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#20radicle.xyz also does the distributed/seeded forge setup and I think does a nice job of it already.