| ▲ | the_other 5 hours ago |
| Reading the intro, I feel like I got a good hint about what this is. It sounded like "local first git for teams, without the hell of sharing patches via email". I don't know what gitea or forgejo are, so comparisons wouldn't help me. |
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| ▲ | TeMPOraL 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The other day someone here coined JTPP - "Just the prompt, please", expressing preference for reading the prompt instead of the e-mail/article it produced. The reasons for that are rather obvious, but I think it applies to marketing copy in general. With that in mind, I wonder what the original idea behind this project was - the "prompt" that someone got in their mind, which got them excited enough to build this. Reading the "original prompt" might make it easier to figure the product out. Marketing copy is "how we can make what we have look more alluring to people". The "original prompt" is directly answering "what we actually aspired to build". |
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| ▲ | causalscience 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I can tell you. Forgejo is a git server (i.e. you can push to a remove that lives in a different machine) plus a web GUI that allows to list repos, list commits within a repo, navigate commits and files within a commit. The license is Free and Copyleft. |
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| ▲ | zamalek 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | You still have to run it on a server somewhere, which Nintendo can get shut down. | | |
| ▲ | badsectoracula 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Nintendo (or whoever) will shutdown whatever users visit to download the thing they want gone. From a skim through the user guide, Radicle seems to only handle the dev/backend side of things and Nintendo wouldn't care that much about it. After all there are already several git mirrors of Yuzu, what was lost was the official "download this" page and the centralized Github bits (issues, etc), though other projects could like handle this bit just fine either as addons (Forgejo) or natively (like the Fossil SCM). | |
| ▲ | overfeed 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Nintendo can't shutdown your git server if it's running on a Raspberry Pi in your pantry, or a NAS appliance in your home office/basement. As a matter of fact, Forgejo/Gitea are excellent choices for automatic mirroring of any Git repos you fear may be shutdown by DMCA shenanigans. | | |
| ▲ | lorenzleutgeb 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Right. Radicle would be one way to connect all these Raspberry Pis in many pantries together, and have them replicate each others repos. It also enables others to send patches, without first having to create an account on that Raspberry Pi in your pantry. And in case your Raspberry Pi is offline, others will just as happily serve your project, with cryptographic assurance that it wasn't modified. Don't get me wrong. Power to you and your Raspberry Pi! Radicle invites you to join a network of people that solve the same problem as you do, and pool resources. | | |
| ▲ | overfeed 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I wasn't shitting on Radicle - I think centralized Git is antithetical to the D in DVCS. | | |
| ▲ | yjftsjthsd-h an hour ago | parent [-] | | In what way is git antithetical to being distributed? Github, sure, but git itself seems fine. | | |
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| ▲ | saurik 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | But if people can't find it, then they can't download the code or contribute to the project. And if people can find it, then there is no need to physically wrest your device out of your home: they'll just get your domain name taken away or your ISP to block the connections (at best, if not entirely shut you down). | | | |
| ▲ | zamalek 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | They can get you arrested, and you wouldn't be their first. | | |
| ▲ | mistercheph 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Just like the MPAA is having people arrested for torrenting films? It doesn't scale well unless there's a centralized entity you can go after that controls distribution. |
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