Tangled

“until they announced they sought and got VC investments, which makes it not even worth looking into for long-term projects”

“I've had some performance issues and some technical ones with hosting my own 'knot' and 'spindle' services”

“I think tangled is just not for you since the ATProto model is for open data and so fits open source projects really nicely”

“Tangled is forcing some of their particular technologies (nix/rust) on users for those pieces and that is a hard sell.”

“It's built on ATProto, so even if the company disappears, all of the integration and features will still work”

“Tangled by making use of the atproto replicates much of this functionality. While also allowing people to run their own nodes”

“No private repositories (because everything is on ATProto) so near zero commercial use potential”

“mean that a competitor could come in easily if you were no longer satisfied with performance, reliability, or monetization.”

“Tangled is far from feature complete but I like the direction and it probably is a bit more resilient against global outages like this.”

“in practice it is centralized: you can host your own PDS and knot but if tangled.org decides you don’t align with their values then they stop indexing you”

“It's the first take on challenging Github as a social network for developers that I've seen that might actually work.”

“as long the tech is open (it is) and as far as I can discern it is federated and decentralized”

“actually wants to be a general-purpose decentralized GitHub competitor for the long run, and seems to be much more dependable”

“I like the idea at a high-level, though it remains to be seen how well code hosting fits into the AT Proto model.”

“you’re tied to both tangled (unless you want to self host a forge, which if you did you wouldn’t have picked tabgled)”

“Self-host your knots, AT Protocol for identities, and an "indexer" at tangled.org (easily replaced).”

“Being able to host my git repos as a headless, data-only server is about as painless as self-hosting can get.”

“it's a bit fun to host your own Knot and Spindle servers but still connect to a full social graph”

“without the reliance on a single host provider/instance like GitHub/GitLab/whatever as a single point of failure”

“Much more convenient that hosting an entire, siloed webapp on my own corner of the internet.”

“Both Radicle and Tangled miss the point; these are all for public collaborative work, but what about private repos?”

“the AT protocol means that any individual forge can go down, but the data remains accessible from other AppViews”

“The problem with VC-funded projects is that there is definitely going to be some kind of rug-pull.”

“As long as they don't make it hard to move off their platform, IMO it's completely fine for them to try different monetization models.”

“How can they ever see a dollar of profit without a rug pull, license change or hosted moat?”

“Why should we spend our time on a developer tool that would be enshittified down the line when VCs expect 10x returns?”

“Tangled is VC sponsored. It doesn't scream stability to me, but rather "we need to grow at all cost".”

“Tried tangled, quite like the idea! The fact you can always switch to a self-hosted knot is nice.”

“tangled knots actually federate. you could contribute to repos on knot.ghostty.org and knot.tangled.org with the same account.”

“the future really should be federated forges. Host repositories on sovereign infra with global identity”

“its got the self-hostability that cgit/forgejo does and a the social bits that github does”

“As soon as you take money from VCs and Angels, the implication now is an exit and a duty to deliver investor updates”

“am loving it, not least of which is that my git server (a 'knot' in Tangled parlance) is under my control”

“Your docs site contains useful instructions and a sidebar that clearly communicates an organization structure.”

“I did try to get some of my git repos on Tangled.org just today, and alas found that the actual git data needs a "knit" server to do that.”

“You have one identity (on a PDS somewhere, optionally self-hosted) which you use to interact with any tangled repository”

“there are a bunch of interesting (and exciting depending on your POV) apps out there that _aren't_ microblogging apps”

“As far as I know only Tangled actually supports it, but unfortunately Tangled is tangled up in its own weird federation ideas.”

“built on the same protocol as bluesky, meaning your identity is preserved across different platforms”

“If you're looking for something light, self-hostable and a bit more social, with pull requests and bug creation from the web”