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I've answered the use-case question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39601588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39601588 But yes, we're not offici

I've answered the use-case question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39601588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39601588 But yes, we're not officially launched yet and the website is going through a rewrite to offer more clarity, thanks for the feedback. Re: seed nodes: they are running the same software and work the same way as regular nodes, the only difference is how they're deployed (with a public IP address vs. behind a NAT). But yes, a little bit of asymmetry is needed because of NATs/IPv4. Re: properties: mainly we need to provide encryption and self-certification to enable a similar user experience as GitHub/GitLab/etc. on a an untrusted peer-to-peer network. Additionally though, Radicle offers a level of censorship resitance and disruption tolerance that GitHub cannot offer.

bawolff 3y ago
> I've answered the use-case question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39601588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39601588 I appreciate you think you have, but you haven't. Appeals to vauge lofty notions of digital soverignty and other political values is not what i'm looking for and doesn't really mean much. I'm more looking for a threat model. What does the network accomplish? What are its limits? What are its intended properties? > Additionally though, Radicle offers a level of censorship resitance and disruption tolerance that GitHub cannot offer. That seems unlikely (at least as it stands now). Pretty sure it would be much easier to DoS the entire radicle network than to DoS github. It all depends on who you think your attacker is. Github has an excellent track record of standing up to china (for example nytimes archive on github is primarily about bypassing the great firewall of china) it is much weaker on DRM circumvention. All these things depend on how you define them. If you don't define them, and rigorously analyze them, then your censorship resistence is probably wishful thinking.

bawolff 3y ago

> I've answered the use-case question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39601588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39601588 I appreciate you think you have, but you haven't. Appeals to vauge lofty notions of digital soverignty and other political values is not what i'm looking for and doesn't really mean much. I'm more looking for a threat model. What does the network accomplish? What are its limits? What are its intended properties? > Additionally though, Radicle offers a level of censorship resitance and disruption tolerance that GitHub cannot offer. That seems unlikely (at least as it stands now). Pretty sure it would be much easier to DoS the entire radicle network than to DoS github. It all depends on who you think your attacker is. Github has an excellent track record of standing up to china (for example nytimes archive on github is primarily about bypassing the great firewall of china) it is much weaker on DRM circumvention. All these things depend on how you define them. If you don't define them, and rigorously analyze them, then your censorship resistence is probably wishful thinking.