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Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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Post by Frost1x »

dsign wrote: post #73

We kind of need this yesterday... what's the point of having a decentralized git if the issues are centralized at Github? (which, not to make too fine a point of it, is owned by Microsoft). Even if you host your own Gitlab, there is always that day when the hard drive of the server fails and the ops have to spend a weekend restoring backups while changing hosting company because who crashes the hard-drive of an expen…

I always find it comically ironic how the industry basically centralized a version management system (git) that was inherently designed to be decentralized. "Git is so great! Let's add these higher level project management features but let's do it in a centralized model!"

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

#102

Post by cloudhead »

scoopertrooper wrote: post #65
cloudhead wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So when GitHub is down, how do users know to pull from your mirrors? How about push?

Notes in the readme? How long are you expecting one of the biggest websites in the world to be down?

A couple of hours[0]? One entire day[1]?

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/6/29/21306674/git...

[1]: https://github.blog/2018-10-30-oct21-post-incident-analysis/

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

#105

Post by OJFord »

simias wrote: post #91
Aeolun wrote: post #78

How and why is literally everything peer to peer in the tech community also somehow connected to ethereum?

My first reaction when I read "peer-to-peer" in the title was "cool" followed immediately with "oh it's going to push some cryptocurrency crap, isn't it?" But honestly after reading the page it look fine to me. Oddly enough they seem to use cryptocurrencies as... currency. They don't bullshit you by saying that you're going to store your code on the blockchain. Besides, while I long ago became tired of the cryptocurr…

Also I actually think it could be used pretty effectively - not saying it does this today or would ever - but it could let you offer a bounty for 'whoever submits a PR that closes this issue; that the maintainer accepts; that is not reverted within 30 days' in a trusted but decentralised way.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

#106

Post by htrap »

We are building https://gitopia.org

- Permanent Data Storage provided by Arweave

- Works from within git with the help of git-remote-helper `npm install -g git-remote-gitopia` so no need to learn new tooling

- Built-in incentivization to token holders who also take part in the governance of Gitopia

- Token holders share revenue made by the platform

- You can mirror your GitHub repositories now using the Github Mirror Action. Follow step by step from here -https://thetechtrap.com/posts/push-your-code-to-gitopia/

- We are now working on the governance and collaboration workflows that will enable transparency in open source development and provide the stakeholders to have a say in the direction of the project.

You can reach out to us on

https://twitter.com/gitopiaOrg

https://discord.gg/mVpQVW3vKE

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

#107

Post by sktrdie »

sdan wrote: post #68

It's weird to think P2P is becoming all the craze for "privacy" while it's the backbone of the internet: it is p2p. It's just nowadays its more of P2(big cloud servers)2p; which could be a good thing depending on who you ask and your usecases.

I always thought maintaining servers was silly since BitTorrent already proved we can achieve higher bandwidth throughput using lots of clients communicating together.

But p2p is more about the network connectivity than whether the node is an Amazon server or a mobile phone. The normal Web for instance does not build on this network nodes capabilities. We need more apps that build these kind of collaborative and self-sustainable networks

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

#108

Post by CryptoPunk »

dweberz wrote: post #57
MartijnBraam wrote: post #50

This seems so unnecessary, replace the blockchain stuff with email and you have git as it was originally intended. no custom software needed.

I believe you didn't even read the text. Ethereum is used to send money to maintainers. not sure how email does that...

To add to that: there are several major stablecoins on Ethereum: USDT, which is backed by BitFinex and has $12 billion in circulation, USDC from Coinbase/Circle with $3 billion in circulation, GUSD, from Gemini, BUSD from Binance with $700M in circulation, and DAI, which is decentralized and has $1 billion in circulation.

These are all ERC20 tokens so easy to integrate into Radicle, and offer a way to allow developers to get paid peer-to-peer while completely avoiding the price volatility of typical cryptocurrencies.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

#109

Post by neurobashing »

Frost1x wrote: post #101
dsign wrote: post #73

We kind of need this yesterday... what's the point of having a decentralized git if the issues are centralized at Github? (which, not to make too fine a point of it, is owned by Microsoft). Even if you host your own Gitlab, there is always that day when the hard drive of the server fails and the ops have to spend a weekend restoring backups while changing hosting company because who crashes the hard-drive of an expen…

I always find it comically ironic how the industry basically centralized a version management system (git) that was inherently designed to be decentralized. "Git is so great! Let's add these higher level project management features but let's do it in a centralized model!"

the industry aggressively seeks centralization. One browser always ends up taking huge amounts of market share. A small number of sites end up being hubs for large amounts of activity. We then spend forever trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube - federated social networks and chat, stuff like this.

Re: Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

#110

Post by b_fiive »

Aeolun wrote: post #78

How and why is literally everything peer to peer in the tech community also somehow connected to ethereum?

quick hand raise for the IPFS community, which is yes p2p, no blockchain. I'm working a "git for data" project atop IPFS and aren't hawking a coin.

I'll readily admit there are very few yes-p2p and no-blockchain projects out there, but we exist

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