Radicle: peer-to-peer collaboration with Git
Radicle: peer-to-peer collaboration with Git
Posted Mar 29, 2024 18:18 UTC (Fri) by comex (subscriber, #71521)Parent article: Radicle: peer-to-peer collaboration with Git
- your Git hosting service enshittified and took your data hostage
- you just want to switch hosting services for some other reason
- your hosting service suffered data loss
- you don't have an Internet connection and need to work offline temporarily
- your hosting service got a DMCA notice (...this is a concern for everything from youtube-dl to Nintendo fangames)
It's also usually faster to access local data than a remote server.
Git was originally designed to be paired with mailing lists, which have more or less the same resilience. Everyone on the mailing list has an archive of all mail from the list (if they don't delete it), and if the list goes down, it's not too hard to set up a new one.
But then GitHub ruined it by adding centralized issues and pull requests.
I'm not a mailing list revanchist; I think GitHub won by providing a legitimately better experience. I just want to recover the decentralization.
So I'd like to use a decentralized issue/PR tracking system for my projects. However, I highly value accessibility and drive-by contributions, so it's essential that users shouldn't be required to use any new tool in order to access and contribute issues and PRs. There should be a nice web UI that can do most of what GitHub does, *in addition* to a local tool for more advanced users. Sounds like Radicle is partway there, but the inability to contribute using the web UI is a blocker for me. I hope that gets improved soon.
Posted Mar 30, 2024 2:42 UTC (Sat)
by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
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Posted Sep 10, 2024 14:23 UTC (Tue)
by ceplm (subscriber, #41334)
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Radicle: peer-to-peer collaboration with Git
Radicle: peer-to-peer collaboration with Git