HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

jgtrosh

I was not aware of Radicle; it's a truly peer-to-peer Git forge which aims to guarantee commits are signed by current maintainers (among, I suppose, other goals). The article mentions an us and a you, but I feel like it would have been an useful occasion to explain why move (from where?) and why Radicle. Maybe this was already discussed elsewhere? I suppose similar discussions regarding GitHub are happening today and could explain why this was posted to HN.

csomar

This is what I am getting > Could not connect to rad.hardenedbsd.org The node may be offline or the address may be incorrect. Select a different node to continue.

ramon156

In this scenario, how does p2p compare to ATProto? The downside of both is that you still need high available servers

chungy

Is Radicle an alternative to Fossil?

sunshine-o

Radicle is a legit project that has been around for at least 5 years trying to solve a pretty hard problem. With the awareness of the dangers of Github growing they could really start gaining traction but from what I understand they still have a big problem: you can host a node, the web UI and create repos, link it to your website but it will be hard for people to find your project and code. You are on the internet, but not on the visible one. Radicle do have a search engine [0] but it won't return anything if you look for HardenedBSD. And maybe it is not Radicle role to provide the front door and code search infrastructure (I am pretty sure they to not have the money to support it). So my guess is key to decentralized code forges, whether it is Radicle, Gitea or Forgego instances, really miss the search infrastructure today. I am pretty sure HardenedBSD will keep mirrors on Github and Gitlab to stay "visible" to the broader Internet but what happen the day they have to leave because of some incompatibility with those corporations user agreement? - [0] https://search.radicle.xyz/

mkl

> Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner, and users are in full control of their data and workflow. - https://radicle.dev/ There seems to be no way to get this kind of information from the radicle.network link in this article. Clicking the logo in the top left takes you to a page that just says "A public node run by the Radicle team", which is totally uninformative.

h4kunamata

Why hate yourself when you have Codeberg or its self hosted Forgejo?? In today's society, there is no much if anything trully peer-to-peer. They are either trying to make AI PRs harder to happen or idk

kernalix7

Codeberg / Forgejo are also out there as less radical alternatives, so the choice space isn't binary. But the discoverability gap is real, and so is the loss of all the surrounding infrastructure people don't always think about. CI runners, release hosting, container registry, security advisories. You can replace each of those individually, but doing it all at once is a significant maintenance burden for projects with limited maintainer time.