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Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub

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

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Post by Proven »

cloudhead wrote: post #35
varbhat wrote: post #4

I don't understand how using Radicle will free my code as they say in the site. So,how is using Radicle better than: 1. main repo on https://github.com 2. mirror repo on https://repo.or.cz 3. mirror repo on https://codeberg.org 4. local backup on my device and hard-disk. peer-to-peer is beautiful concept but note that git is already distributed VCS. you can have many remotes and mirrors. Just that p2p is not necessar…

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

When you repo is on Radicle your users cannot find it to begin with.

What about push? How many projects can't wait 15 minutes until Github or other service resumes normal service?

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

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Post by fireattack »

thruflo22 wrote: post #28
fireattack wrote: post #10

This doesn't look like "alternative to GitHub" to me; you don't need to download any client to use GitHub and having a nice web interface is one of the most defining feature of GitHub.

GitHub is a “social coding” platform that provides collaboration features (access control, issues, etc) on top of Git. This is a social coding tool that provides collaboration features on top of Git. It provides a desktop app because it’s peer to peer. That’s an advantage over a web UI for developers looking to avoid a dependency on a centralised third party. You are free to continue to play in walled gardens but thi…

Well the disadvantage is it doesn't even have a Windows client.

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

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Post by Proven »

LockAndLol wrote: post #29
varbhat wrote: post #4

I don't understand how using Radicle will free my code as they say in the site. So,how is using Radicle better than: 1. main repo on https://github.com 2. mirror repo on https://repo.or.cz 3. mirror repo on https://codeberg.org 4. local backup on my device and hard-disk. peer-to-peer is beautiful concept but note that git is already distributed VCS. you can have many remotes and mirrors. Just that p2p is not necessar…

So you need 3 accounts on 3 different services to achieve what radicle does. OK, let's say you use your Github account for all of them instead, now you have centralized your accounts and if you're another youtube-dl, Popcorn-Time or just happen to be unlucky enough have the nationality of a country that the USA likes to hate against, that account is gone. As for updating all those mirrors, how do you do that? `git pu…

In order to keep it simple I'll just use Github, sit out their downtime and spend no time to educate users because everyone knows how to use it or can find answers in seconds.

This use is the same as for other distributed services - own your data, resist censorship, increase resilience, bla bla, but in reality there's 5 cases (out of 5 million) where this mattered. This would work better without crypto and decentralization B.S. but how to compete with a service and the deep pockets of Gitlab and Github...

Put simply, if you care about your project, you won't bother with this stuff because you lose users and contributors (as long as Github and Gitlab censorship is limited as it currently is).

Right now your total addressable market is like 5 projects deemed illegal in the US.

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

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Post by throwaway_pdp09 »

viraptor wrote: post #39
nikitaga wrote: post #38

What a nice funky design. That front page has a soul, unlike almost everything else I see nowadays.

There's a post about the design here: https://radicle.community/t/the-journey-to-radicles-new-bran...

The main site page is just awful. It's amateurish, image/animation heavy to no value, almost negligable information. They may have something good but the site's just obscuring it.

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

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Post by viraptor »

a-dub wrote: post #20

i think this is technically interesting, but i'm curious in practice what it gives project maintainers over hosting their own gitlab instance or similar...

I've got a number of tiny projects. Realistically if they're not hosted on GitHub, they won't get contributions. "Setup another login on my gitlab instance" would close to ensure nobody collaborates on it. This allows me to both disconnect them from a centralised service and remove the "you need a separate identity" step.

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

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Post by dweberz »

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...

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

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Post by viraptor »

throwaway_pdp09 wrote: post #55
viraptor wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a post about the design here: https://radicle.community/t/the-journey-to-radicles-new-bran...

The main site page is just awful. It's amateurish, image/animation heavy to no value, almost negligable information. They may have something good but the site's just obscuring it.

I think it does a good job listing project ideas / features / roadmap and is a pleasant step away from the bland corporate brands. Love the esthetic. You just can't satisfy everyone.
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