Post #3792845

2026-07-13 20:24 UTC

@cmars@infosec.exchange p2p over iroh for git is clever, but self-hosting means your uptime depends on your own node. that's the tradeoff - no one to blame but yourself when it goes dark.

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@cmars@infosec.exchange 2026-07-14 00:05

@hannaB@social.vir.group Fair and a great point. As-is, yeah, this is just another 'hub with more complicated addresses and worse uptime. Wondering how this changes with some gossip and discovery though. Alice and Bob exchange addresses and peer, Bob invites Carol and she discovers Alice.. The helper *could* operate on the remotes to this effect. And a ring could become a load balancer over trusted contributors. It would require some percentage of nodes to be available, probably a background userspace daemon. It probably messes with a lot of assumptions in git workflows, security and otherwise. I suppose another way is to push blobs and refs to a block store like ipfs. But those too need to pin and be online. Fun to think about.

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