“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea”

Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by realusername on Thursday July 25, 2019 @09:44PM (#20531647)

I like Gitlab but that's not exactly what I have in mind, I think about something more similar to torrents. The problem with everyone having their own instance without discoverability & interoperability between them is that you lose most of the value of Github.

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Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by gruez on Thursday July 25, 2019 @10:09PM (#20531777)

>I like Gitlab but that's not exactly what I have in mind, I think about something more similar to torrents

So everyone runs their own gitlab instance, and there's some sort of gitlab "tracker" that you can search through?

>without discoverability

What is this "discoverability" you speak of? If you want a library to do "foo", do you search up "foo" on github and look through the repositories? Is this better than searching up "foo" on google?

>& interoperability

The only "interoperability" I can think of is for pull requests, and I do agree that having to make an account on the instance and push to it to make a PR is a pain. This can easily be solved by allowing remote git repos to be used as PR sources, and using social sign in for account creation (so you don't need to create an account to create contribute).

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Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by iameli on Friday July 26, 2019 @12:28AM (#20532358)

Secure Scuttlebutt's git-ssb is kind of this

https://git-ssb.celehner.com/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403L...

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Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by antpls on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:46AM (#20532870)

I guess git hosting is already available on IPFS.

Anyway, hosting is not allowed/feasible on 4G (maybe also won't be allowed on 5G?), which is what everyone has.

The software stack isn't the issue, and smartphones are powerful enough to host contents, the problem comes from the current mobile telcos operators who doesn't allow hosting on their networks because of NAT/bandwidth/political concerns

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