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p-e-w 9 hours ago

> GitHub's moat is not code hosting

Of course not, it’s the number of people who are already signed up.

Instagram’s moat also most certainly isn’t a scrollable photo timeline.

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verdverm 9 hours ago | parent [-]

There's more to it than the number of people.

Actions, GitHub apps/external integrations, identity/permission management

The most significant, near-term, non-moaty gap is still private repos, which isn't all that big of a feature on the surface, but will have major work under the surface because of how bluesky is designing private spaces.

I also think being primarily nix/jj focussed turns a lot of people away. Those techs are not my cup of tea, so I don't see myself using tangled.

I'd be curious to hear tangled's thoughts on the path to financial sustainability. Without something that sounds plausible, I'm unwilling to migrate my code forge, for risk of going away / obsolescence.

	▲	arikrahman 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I see it attracting more people than it dissuades. You can use jj as just a prefix for Git commands like jj git init. Yet you get supercharged repo navigation abilities. If obscelecene is your concern, jujutsu is VCS agnostic and doesn't have to use Git in the future. Nix is as simple as it gets, even better than docker. Just 'nix run' whatever flake file someone gives you and everything works magically. This codeforge going away can't happen for me because I self-host it.