https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/
git is a remarkable piece of technology that was designed to be decentralized out of an understanding that centralized systems are brittle and represent single points of failure
github effectively undoes the benefits of decentralization. we can do better, the future does not look like this.
@nasser I think email chains would be fine if there were more standard views over top of them TBH.
Why not use https://radicle.dev/ instead of making another standard? 😅
@mauve I'm working on something I think is different and simpler. bottoms out in a crdt file per issue/merge request/ticket that gets stored into the repo and reuses existing hosted repository infrastructure for distribution. ie you should be able to use codeberg while I use source hut and we should be able to collaborate. the tool opens a local server that presents a web interface. it's more like git bug than anything.
radicle as far as I understand had a more involved bespoke p2p protocols with seeder nodes, which isn't what I'm getting at.
@nasser I like that! Whatcha gonna do for access control? are you gonna add a hook to automatically fix confflicts in the crdt file when someone does a pull/merge? Are the forge crdts going to be in their own branch? I'm guessing p2p nuts can just add a p2p remote to pull/push to if they want to sync with others.
@mauve yeah it's the main missing piece. email chains aren't the answer. I'm prototyping something based on automerge that runs locally that I think has some promise.