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fry69
@fry69.dev

As with Facebook and others, an alternative to GitHub will need to find a way to bridge the community around it (discussions/issues/etc.), to overcome network effects. That is the hard part, not building the platform, or the hosting. I fear we are way past "if you build it, they will come".

Matt Kane
@mk.gg

Agreed. GitHub is a lot more than hosted Git repos. I think in many cases the biggest barrier isn't even the community: it's the integrations. e.g. all the services that use GitHub login, and have native build integrations. I literally just built one with EmDash.

Matt Kane
@mk.gg

Just a guess, but I would imagine that any business that came out of this would get seed funding pretty easily, probably from people in the room at Connect.

Isaiah Norton
@ihnorton.bsky.social

FWIW I’m confused by the license requirement — curious whether allowing AGPL or even BSL would substantively detract from the goals here. (I assume the main goal is awareness/interest in building on the git backend, w/ the long-tail of “find and seed future customer”)

Matt Kane
@mk.gg

I think those are just examples of permissive licenses, not a comprehensive list. If it does exclude copyleft licenses it's probably because they are a nightmare for any company to use

Matt Kane
@mk.gg

This competition is specifically about projects that use Cloudflare Artifacts as the primitive for Git

Maya Novak
@maya-novak.bsky.social

For agent-first Git, every repo action should show which agent made it, what permission it used, and which human or policy authorized it. A commit history without an authorization history will get hard to trust fast.