Re:GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)
by clacke2 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @08:21PM
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https://radicle.xyz/radicle-link.html
It frustrates me that they use the relation "on top" backwards, but otherwise it's a good read.
Radicle provides a network overlay and gossip protocol, on top of which they run the git smart protocol (they describe it the other way around, which makes no sense).
Re:GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)
by FullyFunctional on Saturday October 24, 2020 @08:05PM
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But web of trust hasn't been very successful in practice. It's the usual reason quoted [citation needed] for the failure of PGP/GPG to become a mainstream success.
Keybase's approach is more scalable, but it's still centralized.
Re:GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)
by ryukafalz on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:10PM
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PGP’s web of trust hasn’t been a mainstream success because (and I say this as a dedicated GPG user) the UX is awful. I don’t think it has anything to do with the web of trust though; in fact GPG doesn’t really expose the web of trust ideas much to the user.
I can easily imagine a web of trust system with UX more similar to Facebook’s (and in fact this is basically what SSB’s clients are).
If it's the case and if anyone from the project is reading this, it would be helpful to mention it on top of landing page.
Also, the landing page is mentioning ssb, is this related to git-ssb?
> how do you handle issue/comment spammers?
I love how ssb is handling that : it's not a problem because you create a "web of trust" and only content from people you trust and people they trust reaches you - and trust can be revoked in case of problem. Obviously, it creates an other problem, though : how a benevolent total stranger can reach you?
By the way, yet an other alternative is hypergit ( https://github.com/noffle/hypergit ). It uses hyperdb/dat. I used it a few times to share code with friends, I loved it because it was the most straightforward for them to install and use.