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Re:Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative by BlueTemplar on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @07:48AM (#39602625)
How do you find a website ?

And presumably the person hosting it will make sure that the computer hosting it is often on, for instance ISP routers and TV boxes are a good way to popularize it, since they often come with NAS capabilities :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebox

(Notably, it also supports torrents and creating timed links to share files via FTP.)

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Re:Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative by gsaslis on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:00AM (#39604255)
Depends on what you mean by finding :

- finding what the domain name is ? - resolving the DNS to an IP address ?

Radicle solves both problems in theory, but more the latter than the former right now:

- there is some basic functionality to search for projects hosted on Radicle, to find the right repo id (I expect this area will see a lot more activity and improvements in the near future), - given a repo id, actually getting the code onto your laptop. This is where the p2p network comes in, so that the person hosting it doesn't always need to keep their computer/router/tv box on, etc.

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