Cradicle the p2p github alternative (based on Radicle) is looking for users/testers

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I proposed this project to improve on Radicle’s p2p model by using Tor for universal, straightforward seeding of git repos.

Original discussion thread - https://bounties.monero.social/posts/207/

One of the project’s git repos linked in that thread - https://radicle.network/nodes/iris.radicle.network/rad:z2ydYmUCJvDfNFTVTpEbQmm55EPt1/history

Project website - https://cradicle.xyz/

The dev who took the project also expanded it into a project to reimplement Radicle in C.

Since I’m not a coder and I don’t have any git repos of my own, I can only test from the viewpoint of an average layman using the GUI app to seed repos.

It’s impossible for me to properly gauge how the project is progressing without engagement from coders who try using it for their git repos.

If the project doesn’t currently interest you, your suggestions on how to start getting users on board would also be welcome.

onlinepersona@programming.dev · 2 hours

But why? Radicle supports TOR and I2P (see changelog).

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At the time I made the proposal, I couldn’t figure out a simple way to seed repos with Radicle like I was familiar with from GUI-based BitTorrent clients, and when I asked people in the community why it was so complicated, the answer I ended up with was that it was due to domain names / static IP addresses being required instead of onion addresses (or other decentralized cryptographic addresses)

Has that changed since then? Doesn’t quite seem clear to me from the link you posted

Edit - after thinking about it a little more, I remember it may have been possible to use Tor via a proxy at the time I made the proposal, but it didn’t work fully and wasn’t anywhere near a 1 click solution like bittorrent. Still not sure if that’s changed

ISO@lemmy.zip · 3 hours

using Tor for universal, straightforward seeding of git repos.

That doesn’t sound right. Maybe design/implementation details would make it less nonsensical.

C implementation of radicle

Now this just sounds like a bad joke. Especially with the tor project itself spending all this effort to give us arti as a readily usable embeddable rust crate.

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That doesn’t sound right. Maybe design/implementation details would make it less nonsensical.

The proposal used Tor’s onion addresses as an answer to Radicle (unlike BitTorrent) requiring seeders to have fixed IP addresses or domain names (edit - or preconfigured onion proxies or something making onion addresses complex to use). Another reply suggests this problem with Radicle has been fixed or they’ve started fixing it while this project was in development. I haven’t really kept up with the news on Radicle in that timeframe.

sounds like a bad joke

I don’t see why. If radicle is a serious decentralized project at the scale of potentially replacing github, it should of course end up with multiple implementations in multiple programming languages. Can you clarify your view more?

ultimate_worrier@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 hours

IMO. you’ll get more interest if you build it in a more future-proof language like Rust, Unison, Zig, Racket, FStar, or compile to WASM.