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Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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Post by yakmol »

nicce wrote: post #156
aruff wrote: post #133

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It doesn't really matter, you can host your own knot (git backend), spindle (CI/CD worker), and there are already alternative apps to access the same public, consumable records without centralized infra: https://untangled.wisp.place/

It matters a lot. As seen with GitLab and countless other projects.

The assumption here is that there's lock-in. But there is no lock-in. Architecturally, all of the data is controlled by you and available for any other tool to ingest. This is a crucial difference between ATproto apps and other modern web services.

Re: Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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Post by verdverm »

jeremyjh wrote: post #126
blackqueeriroh wrote: post #117

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Issues and PR content are absolutely social artifacts, as they communicate information to others, whether opened by the repo owner or not. In fact, other people can interact with them, and are supposed to do so, which makes them even more inherently social.

The more important thing about issues & PRs is that they explain why the code is the way that it is. Knowing why the code is the way it is, is almost the entire reason we have a repository to begin with. They belong to the code, not some social graph. Yes, code is largely about communication as well - with others as well as our future selves. That doesn’t mean it’s a social media experience. There are lots of ways to…

This was a really intriguing project that became Google abandonware.

https://github.com/google/git-appraise

The idea is to use git-notes for issues & PRs, because git is already distributed by design and these elements of SDLC centralized our usage.

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