Radicle
app.radicle.xyz
Sovereign code infrastructure.
  • JeenaEnglish
    64•1 year ago

    So I guess that would make it more resilient agains Nintendos efforts to destroy all emulators?

    • xep
      48•1 year ago

      Hosting is part of it, but didn’t they legally restrict Yuzu’s developers from working on the emulator? That seems to be a far greater obstacle to me.

      • ClotEnglish
        10•1 year ago

        Can’t they work on it now as its hosted via p2p? How would they know

        • SMc42
          36•1 year ago

          I would think the devs wouldn’t want to risk it. Assuming they are barred from working on it, if they slip up & reveal something about themselves while working or committing, they may be targeted even harder.

      • @[email protected]English
        33•1 year ago

        They convinced the yuzu team to officially not work on yuzu anymore, but I guess the devs could still work on it using their private account or in form of another another team. The major problem was thir patreon locked pre-releases

        But I’m not a legal expert

        • NikkiEnglish
          6•1 year ago

          Also, I think it’s safe to assume what you have provided is not legal advice.

  • XylophEnglish
    28•1 year ago

    Beside the code being hosted in many places, is there any of the forks moving forward / worth upgrading to?

  • @[email protected]English
    19•1 year ago

    I wish y’all could’ve heard the laugh I let out when I saw this post. Fuck GitHub & fuck Nintendo.

    • @[email protected]English
      12•1 year ago

      Not to “um, actually”, but I’m gonna “um actually” - technically, using git to host code in a decentralized fashion has been a standard capability of git since it’s inception. So it’s not really a new idea, just a new iteration

          • @[email protected]English
            12•1 year ago

            https://radicle.xyz

            The Radicle protocol leverages cryptographic identities for code and social artifacts, utilizes Git for efficient data transfer between peers, and employs a custom gossip protocol for exchanging repository metadata.

            So it has a gossip protocol to spread the repo, and a common format for artifacts (issues, PRs, etc) to act more like GitHub.

            I don’t know too much more because I just started looking into it a month or two ago and haven’t done a deep dive. But it’s a layer on top of git to spread repositories peer to peer instead of manually having people add remotes.

              • @[email protected]English
                6•1 year ago

                Thanks for politely asking for more info. I find myself a bit brash sometimes as I live on crypto twitter as my day job. So sorry if the initial message was harsh; I deal with a lot of shit posters.

  • TitouEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Fuck Github, let’s switch to Radicle

  • @[email protected]English
    52•1 year ago

    Amazing. The first medium project on radicle. If this node stops syncing this repo, it should be easy enough to have another node sync it.

    However, I’m not sure if radicle has discoverability built in. With torrents, a magnet link allows finding it, and IPFS just has a hash allowing you to find it. If radicle just needs a hash to find a node with it, that would make it easy for nintendo to list all the nodes and send them a take down notice (which would or would not be heeded, depending on the operator). Regardless, radicle might support anonymous hosting with I2P, which would make nintendo or any other party powerless and unable to send takedown notices to the anonymous servers.

    Additionally, it isn’t clear to me how to contribute to radicle projects yet. Developers will have to learn how to contribute to P2P hosted projects now, but that’s probably not a big learning curve.

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