Comment by jrm4
2 days ago
I'm increasingly becoming convinced that atproto is pointless. Federation is good, but this idea of implementing "take everything with you" at the protocol level is unnecessarily complicated and centralizing. With Bluesky it might make a little more sense, but with Git? So many better, easier options here. Archive your repo and a) learn how to the do the real decentralized thing OR b) make your own centralized thing OR c) just move to Gitlab or similar.
"Take everything with you" is just downstream from "find or be a trustworthy node."
What’s the “real decentralised thing”? You can already archive your repo—Tangled doesn’t prevent that.
AT Protocol is great for when you’re working with the data surrounding your code: issues, pulls etc. which are much harder to move around, or even just archive from GitHub.
Case in point: Gitea (ironically), they’re stuck on GitHub because their 30k+ issues and PRs cannot be migrated from GitHub due to API rate limits.
"Real decentralised thing" here I meant 'using Git in that way that was kind of invented for but no one seems to do,' aka distributed/decentralized with no central server at all.