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@tangled.sh is looking extremely cool, not just another "what if [app] but on atproto" project but truly integrating with the ideas behind the protocol

coolest atproto project bar none. correctly identifies that github is a centralised social layer on an otherwise decentralised protocol, and atprotoifies the social layer

Except the decentralized protocol already had a decentralized social layer… email. The original value-add of GitHub was not (directly) the social layer, it was the intuitiveness. That gave GitHub a critical mass. It became *the* place for development.

Any developer, *today* can pickup any one of a plethora of alternatives that are just as intuitive. It’s not that hard to switch, as git is a decentralized protocol. But they don’t because switching still incurs friction, however small.

In sum, tangled feels like a solution in need of a problem. GitHub offers a thin social layer on top of a decentralized protocol. If GitHub is threatened, decentralized alternatives already exist. Afaik tangled has no discernible value-add over these alternatives, other than “wow atproto”.

> decentralized alternatives already exist name one that maintains the same level of usability affordances that github users are used to

Both gitlab and forgejo have federation in varying capacities. They aren’t perfect, but as a holistic platform they’re light years ahead of tangled which is still closer to concept art than a fully functioning platform. If energy was given to these features they’d be great much faster than tangled

i agree that email is a similar social layer. github is also a similar social layer, since you have one identity that can be used for *all* repos on the platform. I like using Gitlab, but I don't enjoy needing a unique identity for each forge hosted on the internet.