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@ -16,10 +16,22 @@ You can take a project someone else started, and finish it.
There's already a whole bunch of gui programs available on all major operating systems to track and manage repositories, nothing needs to be built to start. It's ready to go. There's already a whole bunch of gui programs available on all major operating systems to track and manage repositories, nothing needs to be built to start. It's ready to go.
Most people are hosting their repo on some Git forge already, you can track it down, or maybe more people can start sharing the url to clone the repo. Most people are hosting the repo for their static site on some Git forge already, you can track it down, or maybe more people can start sharing the url to clone the repo.
Git does have size limitations: so you need to break up bigger projects. Git does have size limitations: so you need to break up bigger projects.
And even before you get to those, in order to make it easier to clone, keeping projects small and modular helps keep things manageable. And even before you get to those, in order to make it easier to clone, keeping projects small and modular helps keep things manageable.
You're already doing cool stuff, just start sharing it with Git; and RSS, ATOM, siloed social networks, and unwieldy Wordpress blogs become an unecessary relic of a more fragile past. You're already doing cool stuff, just start sharing it with Git; and RSS, ATOM, siloed social networks, and unwieldy Wordpress blogs become an unecessary relic of a more fragile past.
Here's some of the sources where this idea is discussed by those much smarter than me:
Solderpunk: Low budget P2P content distribution with git
Gordon Brander: Saving copies of everything is like low-budget p2p
Ploum and the Offpunk project (too much to archive here) https://ploum.net/index_all.html
Ian Clarke and the Freenet project (again, too much to archive here) https://freenet.org/
And many more I'll add as I can.

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Learn More: Learn More:
Check out the paper, which is just a bunch of links, because, none of this is new. Check out the essay, which is mostly a bunch of links, because, none of this is new.