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Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Instead of creating one more centralized alternative, it's best to invest all effort into a decentralized solution, like Radicle[1][2] or federated Forgejo[3][4]. [1] https://radicle.dev/ [2] https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.dev/rad%3Az3gqcJU... [3] https://forgejo.org/ [4] https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...

Or just store it in an S3 bucket with GitSocial: https://gitsocial.org/

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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I really hope more people would use Tangled ( https://tangled.org/ ) You get: - Self hosting your git hosting (if you want) - Self hosting your issues/PRs (if you want) - Self hosting your CI (if you want) - Github-like social features (I have one account, I can follow, star, add issues and PRs to any repo on tangled) It's built on ATProto, so even if the company disappears, all of the integration and features will s…

Tangled is forcing some of their particular technologies (nix/rust) on users for those pieces and that is a hard sell. I don't use those techs, so I'm not interested to use a platform that I need to learn them to use. fwiw, the main site also seems to be down right now, infinite spinner. Docs and blog are loading though

Spindles (CI) can use configurable engines, which includes nixery or microvm (which is similar to github actions). You're not forced into nixos

I don't understand how it forces you to engage with Rust. It happens to be written in Rust but that shouldn't be a major consideration for a user

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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you can also buy GitHub Enterprise onprem and get a managed, self-hosted experience, thereby avoiding the public GitHub downtime downtime and self-hosting is not a reason most people are convinced to move forges, it takes a lot to get someone there

I don't think you understood. You can still get a feature complete social experience that is NOT ISOLATED from anyone. Your GitHub Enterprise comparison is wrong, because with an onprem github entreprise you don't have the social github features (and that's the whole point of tangled, use something else if you want a private forge for your company, it's not for this purpose) My point is, Tangled being on ATProto, you…

atproto is not the next thing, there will be more social protocols to come

tangled will struggle to have private repos that align with user expectations for RBAC, atproto ACL permission proposal is insufficient, Bluesky is not interested in alternative proposals, the centralization of atproto is most prominant in who has write permissions to the repos

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Cursor, which is now owned by Elon, who tried very hard to get all manner of data about citizens with his intrusions? I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this isn't a great idea. He'll use it to feed Grok. I'm not a big fan of Github right now either but I wouldn't consider this alternative due to its ownership chain.

They were also caught having their Grok code agent upload entire source code repositories in the background.

I guess the joke is "come to Origin, your code is already there".

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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What do you mean by "Github's fall from grace"? What happened?

https://www.githubstatus.com/history

Is this a result of too much activity on GitHub (AI-driven jump in repos), though, rather than a fall?

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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You do know you can run git on your own machine, on pretty much any Linux/Unix based server, run it entirely peer-to-peer if you wish... or use Gitlab, including self-hosted Gitlab, or one of many other Git based servers?

Yeah. I just don't really like git. The user interface is dog shit, merging is nasty, it's really easy to blow your own toes off and it's generally horrible. The only reason it got anywhere was github.

Okay, well, nothing’s stopping folks from using hg, P4, svn, CVS, RCCS, MS Visual Source Safe, ClearCase, or who knows what else.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Given Grok was just caught uploading whole codebases and sensitive .envs without permission, how can anyone possibly trust this?

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Just because Billy misbehaved doesn’t make it ok for Jenny to do the same.
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