Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git
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HN comment orderSuggestion: improve the opening summary paragraph: "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." From this, I can't tell how it's any different to just plain self-hosted Git. A well written introduction should tell the reader immediately what the software actually…
Seems like a vehicle to try to start another coin network, like Tea.xyz, and it's just burying the lede: See Drips on https://docs.radworks.org/#projects I'd first heard of Radicle from this post: https://blog.orhun.dev/open-source-funding-with-ratatui/
Check docs over here: https://docs.radicle.xyz/docs/what-is-radicle.html
fyi this isn't https://radicale.org, an open source calendar server
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