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How Radicle Works Under the Hood

by lftherios on 3/27/24, 9:47 AM with 16 comments

• by vaylian on 3/27/24, 11:37 AM

  Radicle shows a lot of promise. As far as I understand it, every participant runs a local radicle node in true peer-to-peer fashion. Every node can seed git repositories which then get replicated on the network. From the perspective of a git command line user, radicle acts as a git-remote that is running on your local machine. The repositories that you push to are then pulled by any other radicle nodes who want a copy. These other nodes will then also seed your repository.

  I know that there is also a web-frontend (kinda like GitHub) for radicle: https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/seed.radicle.xyz/rad:z3gqcJUoA.... But I haven't seen a guide how to set that web frontend up locally.

• by Cyphase on 3/27/24, 11:07 AM

  Recent HN post about Radicle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600810

  Looks like 1.0.0-rc.1 was just released yesterday.

• by mronetwo on 3/27/24, 1:54 PM

  Is it something that's aimed at a specific problem I have never encountered or is it something that can improve everyone's workflow? It feels like it's something closer to git + mailing lists than typical PR workflow, which I do find interesting because PRs are... a lot of unnecessary work. But this has to be better than mailing lists, right?

• by binary132 on 3/27/24, 4:16 PM

  I don’t think I understand how this protocol is supposed to solve the problems of the commons that arise in any peer to peer app, such as how to deal with malicious or misbehaving peers, illegal or unsavory content, and so on. Every P2P app needs to put those problems front and center in their design and I never feel the proposed solutions are adequate. But in this case, I simply don’t see them acknowledged at all.

• by wazbug on 3/27/24, 1:36 PM

  What is it with web3 sites and their obsession with marquees? https://radicle.xyz/faq