BTW: There is work in progress to decentralize modern git based workflows by https://nlnet.nl/project/ForgeFed/ (paid for by the European Union), by decentralizing git not at the client level, but also on the code forge level.

> ForgeFed aims to define a vocabulary

Aw yeah there’s the good EU grant milking shit.

How do decentralized networks deal with illegal content?

The joke is that Git is decentralized already. Many people pick a single master host, but it's absolutely possible to use multiple servers (or to use Git over email, like the Linux kernel does).

Same as everyone else. With law enforcement.

So law enforcement contacts everyone on the network and says please delete these illegal photos?

Yep. Not complicated. They actually only have to contact the people hosting illegal photographs so it's easier than you describe.

git itself is not enough for teams to work together - you need to asynchronously communicate for the whole thing to come together. Thats what GitHub/Lab/ea bring in value.

Someone should write a local git+ssh service (+ email client) that simulates an upstream by hosting git repos locally, emailing all pushed commits/branches/tags to other team members, and keeping the hosted repos up-to-date via the emailed updates from others.

Bonus points for a local HTTP service that provides an optional GitHub-like experience in the browser, with comments/ branch reviews/etc. federated through emailed messages (and represented as commits on meta-repos).

With that data model, the primary remaining challenge would be setting up repos on a new machine -- perhaps BitTorrent could help :)

I feel like "communication" isn't descriptive enough. It's right, but eg Slack (or Microsoft Teams, or maybe both) isn't the right shape of communication.

good idea. let’s call it “git”

Not quite sure, the name should imply that the Source is Safe and provide some Visual tools.

DNS and git are decentralized; anyone can set up a node

Human agency tends to normalize on the brands with biggest marketing budget who collude with politicians to create a moat for themselves. There’s your real problem.

Of course none of the propaganda research that made its way from military after world wars to corporate advertising and marketing college programs has any influence on lizard brains. No sir.*

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