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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jul-2018 21:58:37 EDT Strypey

   How prescient is this!

   "I know GitHub seems to be doing many things right at the moment, but there often comes a point at which companies that have raised $100M in Venture Capital funding start making decisions that their users would strongly prefer them not to."
   https://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittorrent-a-decentralized-github/

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jul-2018 22:46:45 EDT Strypey

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      Seems like #GitTorrent was abandoned a few years ago, or at least the GH repo was. Maybe the work got merged into or superseded by #Git-SSB?

      1. clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jul-2018 23:02:10 EDT clacke@libranet.de ❌

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         @strypey git-torrent was a proof of concept with a bunch of "here's a few things that need to be solved for this to be viable", and didn't go beyond that.
         
         git-ssb is a separate work (but probably knew about git-torrent), and the append-only log offering a canonical layout of the packs solves the major issue with git-torrent -- that it's unlikely that somebody happens to share exactly the set of data you're trying to download.
         1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jul-2018 04:31:52 EDT Strypey

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            @notclacke if I remember rightly it was one of a number of #ProofOfConcept decentralization projects that mushroomed up after #WebTorrent came out

   2. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jul-2018 23:02:00 EDT Strypey

      in reply to

      Seems like #GitTorrent was abandoned a few years ago, or at least the GH repo was. Maybe the work got merged into or superseded by #Git-SSB?