Radicle
app.radicle.xyz
Sovereign code infrastructure.
  • PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    1022·
    2 months ago

    Congratulations, Nintendo, you forced us to find a way to distribute illegal source code. I hope it was worth it.

    I’ve long since been boycotting Nintendo and plan to continue doing so for the foreseeable future. Tux Kart is better than Mario Kart anyway.

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      111·
      2 months 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

      • locuester@lemmy.zipEnglish
        75·
        2 months ago

        All I hear is “I don’t understand git remotes and what radicle does”

          • locuester@lemmy.zipEnglish
            12·
            2 months 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.

              • locuester@lemmy.zipEnglish
                61·
                2 months 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.

  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.netEnglish
    56·
    2 months ago

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

    • xep@fedia.io
      42·
      2 months 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.

      • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
        262·
        2 months 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

        • Nikki@femboys.barEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

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

      • Clot@lemm.eeEnglish
        72·
        2 months ago

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

        • SMc42@piefed.social
          32·
          2 months 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.

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    424·
    2 months 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.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

  • Xyloph@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

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

  • JimboDHimbo@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

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