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Re:Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut by miohtama on Saturday July 02, 2022 @06:08PM (#31962892)
Radicle is a decentralised Github alternative to the point it does not have any centralised servers. However, because of ”web3” many people here on HackerNews might not take it seriously, even thought it might deserve a closer look.

https://radicle.xyz/

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Re:Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut by chx on Saturday July 02, 2022 @08:01PM (#31963683)
It's not that we don't take it seriously, it's what we condone. Web3 is a scam and destroys the environment.
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Re:Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut by k__ on Saturday July 02, 2022 @07:26PM (#31963452)
Yes.

Moving to Radicle would completely eliminate the issues the maintainers had.

Moving to another provider seems like they just "hoping" for the best.

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Re:Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut by capableweb on Saturday July 02, 2022 @06:10PM (#31962900)
As long as it's P2P without involving any cryptocurrencies, I don't see why you'd label it "Web3"?

Edit: seems Ethereum is a opt-in optional part of Radicle, so I see how people could believe it to be a part of the whole "Web3" effort.

Well, as long as I can run it without Ethereum, I'm happy.

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Re:Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut by miohtama on Saturday July 02, 2022 @06:15PM (#31962927)
It literally says Web3 on the second heading of the landing page.
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Re:Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut by capableweb on Saturday July 02, 2022 @06:17PM (#31962940)
As my edit mentions, seems at least that part is opt-in rather than a core of the protocol. So you can use it without "Web3" if you want.
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Re:Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut by k__ on Saturday July 02, 2022 @07:20PM (#31963413)
Web3 is the decentralized web.

Cryptocurrencies are just an extra. No wonder, people here hating on Web3 all the time, if they don't understand that.

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Re:Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut by Klonoar on Saturday July 02, 2022 @07:38PM (#31963534)
...no, the decentralized web is just the web.

Web3 is utterly synonymous with cryptocurrency. Plenty of people here understand what it is and what is discussed when the term is brought up.

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Re:Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut by k__ on Saturday July 02, 2022 @08:01PM (#31963684)
If you think that while using HN, Twitter, FB, GitHub, Google, or anything like that, then bless your heart.
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Re:Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut by Klonoar on Saturday July 02, 2022 @08:39PM (#31963912)
You appear to have completely missed the point of my comment, but given that you ended this comment with a bad attempt to be condescending I suppose I'm not surprised.
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Re:Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut by k__ on Sunday July 03, 2022 @08:49AM (#31967314)
Come on, you really wanna the high road here?

Your comment was basically "I know better and people who are my opinion know this too".

I'm not that long in the Web3 space, but from what I read I got the impression it's about decentralization, self-sovereign identity and permissionless infrastructure. These are fundamental building blocks, which happen to allow the creation of cryptocurrencies, but, as systems like IPFS or Radicle show, they also allow the creation of different things.

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Re:Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut by Klonoar on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @03:29PM (#31992619)
>Come on, you really wanna the high road here?

I wasn't taking the high road. It was not necessary nor conducive to good discussion for you to end your comment the way you did.

>Your comment was basically "I know better and people who are my opinion know this too".

No, it was not.

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Re:Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut by Gigachad on Saturday July 02, 2022 @07:57PM (#31963654)
Crypto hype projects continuously obscure the facts with confusing marketing hype. One thing I couldn't work out from the page is how much it costs to use. It was my understanding that pretty much all web3 projects are hit hard with transaction fees for any change.
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Re:Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut by k__ on Saturday July 02, 2022 @08:10PM (#31963744)
Cryptocurrencies are a way to get funding for web3 infrastructure in a decentralized way. Sadly, it's not the only way cryptocurrencies can be used.

I think, IPFS and Radicle did good here by not making these type of payments mandatory.

They said: if you don't want to run all that stuff yourself, pay someone to host your node. If you want that someone to host nodes in a decentralized matter, you can pay them with crypto.

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