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  • Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    To be fair that would not necessarily be because of the blockchain part, more because of the decentralized/federated nature of this theorical network

      • AlexanderESmith@social.alexanderesmith.com
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        2 months ago

        You mean a “github repo”. Git by itself doesn’t give a hoot about validating authors what-so-ever (I could sign as “Bill Gates bill@microsoft.com”, and git would happily accept the commit), and it’s not federated (multiple people manually downloading various states of the repo at various times doesn’t count).

        Github ensures owners are who they are, as linked to their profile (though email validation only goes as far as “Well, they clicked the link in the email, so this must be their email account”). Github also isn’t federated, since that one site going down takes all the repos with it (unless someone had it cloned, but again, random people downloading at random times yields different states of the repo, depending on when the clone/fetch occured, but then you’d end up with tens/hundreds/thousands of sources of various levels of truth).

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              2 months ago

              You are right, I was just poking fun a little. No hard feelings. You did just kind of um akshually my use of um akshually tho

              • No worries. I just correct people on it because it’s caused problems at work before. It’s a pain when people think that git automatically means github, and they start complaining about cost, and Microsoft feeding their AI, and setting up user accounts, and etc etc etc.

                I’m like… dude, I just want to sync the code from a central server, we can do it in house for free in 5 minutes…

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          2 months ago

          Github is a website, controlled by no less than Microsoft lol.

          A git repo can be spread out like a “blockchain” without the messy validation and coin earnings, maybe that was the intended comparison?

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              2 months ago

              True.

              I’m working on a decentralised sharing protocol, but it uses reciprocal sharing so you’d have to have large storage anyways.

                  • Honestly, despite not actually being federated, I’ve been using raw Git a lot recently. As opposed to ActivityPub, you can always download the current state lf the central repo and bring yourself up to current. I just wish it were easier to store binary data in it (e.g. sharing my MP3s between my laptop and phone)

                    Of course, that’s not a collaborative use-case. I have no intention of opening my files to the world. Just noting that ActivityPub has some pretty severe limitations (if my mbin server is offline, I wont get the updates I missed while it was down, ever. And if I can’t process messages in real-time, I miss those too).

                  • Honestly, despite not actually being federated, I’ve been using raw Git a lot recently. As opposed to ActivityPub, you can always download the current state lf the central repo and bring yourself up to current. I just wish it were easier to store binary data in it (e.g. sharing my MP3s between my laptop and phone)

                    Of course, that’s not a collaborative use-case. I have no intention of opening my files to the world. Just noting that ActivityPub has some pretty severe limitations (if my mbin server is offline, I wont get the updates I missed while it was down, ever. And if I can’t process messages in real-time, I miss those too).