Gleam Is Now on Tangled • Hacker News Board

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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Post by Certhas » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC

Arubis wrote: post #8

propstober wrote: post #2

if anyone has more info on tangled would love to hear. been looking for a decentralized git provider for a while. started self hosting but was missing the social element

[Radicle]( https://radicle.dev/ ) gets a wee bit closer. It’s selfhostable and federated. You’ll have a hard time finding something with the same social gravity well as GitHub; it remains to be seen whether that’s a separable element or if it needs to ship as part of the forge itself.

Can I interact with and discover any federated instance without having to know it exists?

My experience with Bluesky Vs Mastodon really showed that the friction of federation in the latter can really kill the experience for me. I think we need something like Signal is to WhatsApp but for GitHub and my impression is that the ATProto world is the only one with the potential to deliver this.

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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Post by andrewflnr » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 6:36 PM UTC

Arubis wrote: post #38

nvme0n1p1 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, it turns out human culture has a lot of depth and complexity, even so-called "mid" culture. If you think you can write a better explainer, I'd love to read it.

I absolutely could, by removing everything past the first 3-5 sentences in the article. But that probably wouldn’t satisfy the site owner’s desired metrics and SEO targeting.

Actually that means they did a great job of writing a BLUF article. If you only care about the most basic details, you're free to click away after reading the first paragraph. They didn't even mess with my history, a very low bar many similar websites fail to clear. You only need to scroll down if you want more background and context.

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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Post by lavela » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 6:40 PM UTC

jdiff wrote: post #58

lavela wrote: post #51

I'd love to hear why they chose a VC funded forge over e.g. Codeberg. Doesn't really fit the 'friendly language' claim IMO

They're still on GitHub. This isn't any sort of official transition. It's just now also on this other ATProto-based forge.

So I assume you know that tangled being ATProto-based was the reason for going there?

And please explain how it's not a choice when they are still on GitHub.

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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Post by andersonpico » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 6:54 PM UTC

Arubis wrote: post #38

nvme0n1p1 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, it turns out human culture has a lot of depth and complexity, even so-called "mid" culture. If you think you can write a better explainer, I'd love to read it.

I absolutely could, by removing everything past the first 3-5 sentences in the article. But that probably wouldn’t satisfy the site owner’s desired metrics and SEO targeting.

I mean, you could. I've read your blog and it's quite well-written, not only just better-than-know-your-meme. Thank you btw, some really nice reads there.

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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Post by extraduder_ire » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 6:57 PM UTC

gpm wrote: post #56

pbjerkeseth wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

a "username.tngl.sh" schema, which is that I meant by the unfamiliar protocol in the next bullet

Oh, that is unfortunate. Bluesky implicitly adds the .bsky.social domain name. Hopefully tangled starts doing the same some day.

Does it? I just tried logging in without typing the full username and it didn't work.

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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Post by atprotosucks » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 6:58 PM UTC

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Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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Post by gpm » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 6:58 PM UTC

extraduder_ire wrote: post #65

gpm wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, that is unfortunate. Bluesky implicitly adds the .bsky.social domain name. Hopefully tangled starts doing the same some day.

Does it? I just tried logging in without typing the full username and it didn't work.

Blue sky... Yes, at least for me. I double checked in private browsing before posting that claim.

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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Post by dgellow » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 7:04 PM UTC

OneDeuxTriSeiGo wrote: post #30

dgellow wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh they raised a pretty large seed. But they don’t seem to have a business model, or at least I cannot find details on how they plan to make an actual business

I'm not sure what's been published but as someone who plays with tangled as a hobby the immediate monetisation paths I could see are: - Charging to bypass the (admittedly very reasonable) rate limits on the main appview - Providing paid hosting tiers for private git knots, high traffic git knots, git LOP knots, CI runners/spindles, web page hosting (via their github pages equivalent), etc - Introducing a paid-for and…

There are always options, I’m interested to know what their actual plan is. Given that seed investment and who the investors are I would be worried they would try to extract value from people code by training on it

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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Post by YorickPeterse » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC

HeavyStorm wrote: post #44

What's tangled? Which Gleam?

What's a search engine?

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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Post by classified » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 7:12 PM UTC

Planktonne wrote: post #5

This post needs a bunch more context; right now it's only immediately accessible to people who don't need the announcement [1]. [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/curtains-for-zoosha

So is it true that JESTERMAXXING at the club is the new meta?