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I noticed that they moved to a different domain last month: https://radicle.dev/2026/04/23/domain-move
.xyz and similar domains are often blocked by ISPs due to higher than usual rates of spam from domains using that TLD.
The more I have been using git and building my own tooling and services around it for usage, I have figured out that something like radicle feels like the right/better solution, definitely better than what github is atm. There are rough edges and the seeding thing is a bit mehhh. And honestly there are a bunch of things I would do differently but I like the spirit of things. Not sure where the authors of the project…
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AD: The website is currently being redesigned, I suspect we'll have it up in the next few weeks. No it doesn't currently support other VCS's but we have planned for that possibility in future!
VCS agnosticism would be a selling point.
All you would need is cargo compatibility, and a trusted namespace that kept up with the metadata of the current contents of crates.io, right?
edit: I really, really like rust, and love basically all of their choices about the language, but I can't stand the feeling that I'm being tricked into an ecosystem dependent on one of the worst behaved companies in the world, and I can't stand that a lot of rust projects smell like GPL-washing.
That being said, git is GPL and radicle is MIT, so it feels like the same thing, but Github also ain't git. I prefer MIT to MS; if radicle gets important enough and decides to rubpull, there will inevitably be a Free fork anyway.
> What is Radicle? How is it different from Git/GitHub?
> Radicle is a peer-to-peer code collaboration platform (“forge”) built on Git. Unlike centralized platforms like GitHub, there is no single entity controlling the network or user data. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner. Radicle is an alternative for people and organizations who want full control of their data and user experience, without compromising on the social aspects of collaboration platforms.
(Quote from their FAQ).
This isn't even trying to answer the titular question... None of them, actually.
So, what is Radicle? A platform built on Git? What does this mean? A platform for what? What is it for?
Why Git/GitHub are used as if they were the same category of things? There's not even an attempt at answering the "how is this different from Git?" question. What does it offer that Git doesn't? Wtf is "forge"?
Radicle is an alternative... to what? I believe I have full control of my data in my Git repository... why do I need an alternative with even more control? How will I have even more control?
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Maybe whatever this software does is actually useful or even good, but the documentation can't be worse.
I tried to understand what this does... > What is Radicle? How is it different from Git/GitHub? > Radicle is a peer-to-peer code collaboration platform (“forge”) built on Git. Unlike centralized platforms like GitHub, there is no single entity controlling the network or user data. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner. Radicle is an alternative for people and organizations who want full c…
> Radicle is a peer-to-peer code collaboration platform (“forge”) built on Git.
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> Why Git/GitHub are used as if they were the same category of things?
They are not. Github is a centralized collaboration platform built on git, and radicle is a peer-to-peer collaboration platform built on git.
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> Wtf is "forge"?
A word some people started using for the class of Github/Bitbucket(RIP) or even Fossil-type things, as FOSS alternatives began to multiply.
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> Radicle is an alternative... to what?
To Github, or other "forges."
I like this idea a lot! I need to find people to try it with, though, which is not so easy with GH being so popular :-( Some nitpicks: * What is with the forced serif font on the website? * Does this support other version control systems? Like mercurial, SVN, pijul, etc.?
Radicle is really underrated, especially when working with agents. I find it a joy to use for my agentic workflows. If there's purely an agentic forge one day, it's likely going to be a distributed one, with cryptographic identities and signed artifacts by default.
AD: Feel free to post on our Zulip [^1] about your experiences of agentic workflow if you haven't already! Some of the team are interested in developing the agentic workflow experience. [^1]: https://radicle.zulipchat.com/