Comment by idiotsecant

3 days ago

This is interesting, what does it give that hosted git doesn't?

The fact that all the data is open means not only that you could plausibly exit to other providers and keep all your projects data, (issues, prs, etc), but also that it's dramatically easier to build other tools that work on that same data. Triage, labelers, bots, etc, I know these are all possible on GitHub today with their API, but I think the programming model of ATProto removes a lot of friction in building and composing them.

decentralization out of the box for the most part. Its built on ATproto protocol which is used by bluesky/created by them

  • Git is decentralized.

    • We know.

      The forges aren’t decentralized though (barring bits like Sourcehut pushing for email patch workflows). Thats part of what ATP is potentially helping to solve for here.