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The whole "social coding" angle is highly off-putting. List of "X followed Y" on the front page, and the large "social coding" reminds of facebook, social manip
by theamk 1mo ago
The whole "social coding" angle is highly off-putting. List of "X followed Y" on the front page, and the large "social coding" reminds of facebook, social manipulation, developer burnout and all the negative things about social networks. It also brings up the questions about project's long-term direction - is this going to focus on the code part or the social part?
Which is a pity - as I think most projects just need a git host + web UI + easy pull requests + a way to clone other's repos, and tangled seems to do this pretty well.
- Bjorkbat 1mo agoArguably the "social coding" angle is the reason why Tangled is the only actual alternative to GitHub. Otherwise there's actually plenty of other alternatives to GitHub, but none of them have GitHub's punchcard, which I'm ashamed to admit is the primary draw for me.
- palata 1mo agoI'd like to know if most people use GitHub because of the social network part, or other reasons. I, for one, hate the social network part. One thing with GitHub for open source projects is that the CI is free (and included macOS runners). The other is that many people have a GitHub account and would refuse to contribute to a project on another forge if it means that they must create a new account. The federated design of Tangled solves the latter problem, so there's that.
- jatins 1mo agoDon't think anyone uses Github to follow people
- zImPatrick 1mo agoForgejo, and by extent Codeberg, has the punchcard-like feature, it‘s just hidden under „Public activity“ on the profile page
- satvikpendem 1mo agoYou're not the target market, there are a number of other forges as seen in this thread as alternatives.
- palata 1mo agoOne may want the federation ("I can use all those forges without creating multiple accounts" and "I can open a pull request from my forge into another forge") without wanting the social network angle, right?
- satvikpendem 1mo agoYes, for you there is Radicle.dev then
- palata 1mo agoRadicle is decentralised, not federated... Also if everybody moved to Tangled, I would have to somehow interact with it, wouldn't I? I dislike the social network aspect of GitHub, but it doesn't mean I don't need GitHub.
- satvikpendem 1mo agoThere's not a big need for federation if it's already decentralized. Either way you can do some research on other options, no one is forcing you to use one or the other.
- palata 1mo agoAnd you can just use Tangled without the social network aspect. I don't see why you don't want me to use Tangled just because I don't like the social network aspect?!
- satvikpendem 1mo agoWhy would I care what you use? I just said perhaps @theamk is not the target market if they don't like the social network aspects, and then you replied to me, so I'm not sure why you're on my case specifically. Use what you want.
- icy 1mo agoThe neat thing about Tangled is you can build your own frontend pretty quickly. We've got an open API https://api.tangled.org https://api.tangled.org (or self-host your own API server: https://docs.tangled.org/bobbin#bobbin https://docs.tangled.org/bobbin#bobbin)