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Time to create a decentralized, blockchain-based GitHub (GitCoin?) and have every commit be a transaction on the chain. Nothing would ever be takedownable.

by dheera 10mo ago

michaelmrose 10mo ago
The cost would be incredible even for just a pointer to distributed file storage
- odie5533 10mo ago
  Github stores about 19 PB. That would cost about $20k a year on Filecoin. Filecoin currently has more supply than demand because it's speculation-driven right now.
- dheera 10mo ago
  There wouldn't be an org maintaining it. You would just buy $100 worth of GitCoin and that would be enough for 10000 commits, or something like that.
LeoWattenberg 10mo ago
I mean, torrenting is decentralised and not technically takedownable. But it was entirely possible to make it legally painful for people involved in it, as seen in eg. The Pirate Bay, megaupload or an entire cease-and-desist letter industry around individual torrenting users Intentional noncompliance with copyright law can get you quite a distance, but there's a lot of money involved, so if you ever catch the wrong kind of attention, usually by being too successful, you tend to get smacked.
- JCattheATM 10mo ago
  > I mean, torrenting is decentralised and not technically takedownable. It's fairly trivial to block torrent traffic.
zzo38computer 10mo ago
Git already has a blockchain; what you will need to do next is to make copies of the objects of the repositories on other servers as well. (However, I don't know if the blockchain includes tags on git (it seems to me that it might not but I don't know enough about it), although it does include objects. Fossil includes tags in the blockchain as well as files, commits, etc.)
cmrdporcupine 10mo ago
Yes, using blockchain to defraud the GPL. Checks out sufficiently dystopian, yep. If you could work some gratuitous LLM in there, we could be a little closer to torment-nexus territory. Keep working at it.
- waste_monk 10mo ago
  Ooh, how about instead of being able to author a commit message, you're forced to let an LLM write it for you based on the diff since last commit. And that the LLM runs distributed on the blockchain, so it's monstrously slow, and has to be paid for with a 'gas' analogue so there's huge transaction fees as well. That's the most techbro-brained idea I could come up with.
ycombinatrix 10mo ago
git already uses a blockchain lol

Time to create a decentralized, blockchain-based GitHub (GitCoin?) and have every commit be a transaction on the chain. Nothing would ever be takedownable.

by dheera 10mo ago

Time to create a decentralized, blockchain-based GitHub (GitCoin?) and have every commit be a transaction on the chain. Nothing would ever be takedownable.

michaelmrose 10mo ago

The cost would be incredible even for just a pointer to distributed file storage

odie5533 10mo ago
Github stores about 19 PB. That would cost about $20k a year on Filecoin. Filecoin currently has more supply than demand because it's speculation-driven right now.
dheera 10mo ago
There wouldn't be an org maintaining it. You would just buy $100 worth of GitCoin and that would be enough for 10000 commits, or something like that.

LeoWattenberg 10mo ago

I mean, torrenting is decentralised and not technically takedownable. But it was entirely possible to make it legally painful for people involved in it, as seen in eg. The Pirate Bay, megaupload or an entire cease-and-desist letter industry around individual torrenting users Intentional noncompliance with copyright law can get you quite a distance, but there's a lot of money involved, so if you ever catch the wrong kind of attention, usually by being too successful, you tend to get smacked.

JCattheATM 10mo ago
> I mean, torrenting is decentralised and not technically takedownable. It's fairly trivial to block torrent traffic.

zzo38computer 10mo ago

Git already has a blockchain; what you will need to do next is to make copies of the objects of the repositories on other servers as well. (However, I don't know if the blockchain includes tags on git (it seems to me that it might not but I don't know enough about it), although it does include objects. Fossil includes tags in the blockchain as well as files, commits, etc.)

cmrdporcupine 10mo ago

Yes, using blockchain to defraud the GPL. Checks out sufficiently dystopian, yep. If you could work some gratuitous LLM in there, we could be a little closer to torment-nexus territory. Keep working at it.

waste_monk 10mo ago
Ooh, how about instead of being able to author a commit message, you're forced to let an LLM write it for you based on the diff since last commit. And that the LLM runs distributed on the blockchain, so it's monstrously slow, and has to be paid for with a 'gas' analogue so there's huge transaction fees as well. That's the most techbro-brained idea I could come up with.

ycombinatrix 10mo ago

git already uses a blockchain lol