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Is the bounty from almost three years ago, to build a GitHub replacement on Nostr, still active? Since then, several important pieces have been built, and none of it would’ve been possible without @DanConwayDev’s work on ngit or @fiatjaf with GRASP. Have you seen
gittr
gittr - Decentralized Git Hosting on Nostr
A truly censorship-resistant alternative to GitHub built on Nostr.
 by @npub1n2ph...hzmc? It appears to be a fully functioning GitHub alternative. Finally! With the work from all of them, it seems like that bounty might be close to fulfilled.

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↩ replying to campusalot
This!
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𝗚𝗶𝘁 - 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘎𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘣 - ... 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 I find it interesting that Bitcoin develeopment projects tend to centralization. Let me explain: Year is 2005. Linus Torvalds creates Git in because someone suddenly wants to monetise the labour of thousands of open source enthusiasts. The company BitKeeper hosted the Linux kernel for free for years and simply changes its licence terms overnight. Opensource under attack. Fast forward ... today. Bitkeepers attack was successfully fended off. Git is everywhere. But now what? Most repos are hosted on GitHub. Did Microsoft aquire Github for only $7.5B because of their well known Opensource ethos? 🤔 Now what's next? IMHO it may be worth checking out alternatives: either the big ones (Gitlab), or maybe sth. like Codeberg[1], or self hosting, whatever ... image https://codeberg.org/
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↩ replying to Derek Ross
The bounty has done a poor job of incentivizing work on this goal. OpenSats paid Dan to build his project. Everyone else was left to help him (like we did) for no pay, or to build a knock-off edition that basically does the same thing, but in blue, and hope to also get an OpenSats grant. We were initially going for the same solution, but now we're building the opposite, to solve the underlying problem of needing to login with email and a password, and to sign commits with GPG keys. But, he never explicitly said that he wanted to solve for that. The bounty specified GitHub, which is a social website for devs. We have a bunch of those, now.
gitworkshop.dev is pretty good too. And there's also a certain desktop app which is (or should be) a lot faster than what is possible on the web.