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icyphox.sh • 9 days ago

> decentralized alternatives already exist

name one that maintains the same level of usability affordances that github users are used to

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boehs.org•8 days ago

Both gitlab and forgejo have federation in varying capacities. They aren’t perfect, but as a holistic platform they’re light years ahead of tangled which is still closer to concept art than a fully functioning platform. If energy was given to these features they’d be great much faster than tangled

icyphox.sh•8 days ago

tangled has existed for a grand total of two months, built by two people.

comparing gitlab/forgejo’s feature set to tangled’s is … disingenuous at best. also, neither gitlab nor forgejo have any functioning federation capabilities. gitlab hasn’t continued its AP efforts.

boehs.org•8 days ago

Yes I know that’s exactly my point. Retrofitting activitypub or hell atproto into an existing platform with years of effort behind them is a much more productive endeavor than creating a new platform from scratch

bmann.ca•8 days ago

Or not if we use the building blocks of ATProto where we don’t have to implement auth or per user storage at all.

“Classic Full Stack Apps” aren’t architected to function as distributed systems where data has to be aggregated.

boehs.org•8 days ago

Could you elaborate on this? My best understanding of ATProto is that it exchanges complexity in places for different complexities in others.

bmann.ca•8 days ago

All apps need accounts and user storage. These are base capabilities of ATProto itself that you can just use. Lexicon data types then let you store app specific data in the user accounts, making it easier to build custom apps with distributed, user owned data by default.

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