This is the best idea since Blossom. If I understand it correctly the plan is to create a cloud of servers that host Git repositories and that each programmer can be affiliated to (just like you can do with Blossom servers) and they will host all your Git repositories (such that if one of them is down the repositories can always be found on the others) and everything is automatically addressed and authorized using Nostr keys, repositories are discovered using Nostr events and the magic can work easily. I've been trying to self-host my repositories at https://git.fiatjaf.com/ for a while now, and keeping the server running and safe from the aggressive AI crawlers has been a challenge. My intent was to make a nice self-hosted server with a NIP-34 integration so people could send patches (the biggest hurdle these days when using anything to host your code except for GitHub is that it's too hard for external people to contribute), but that integration was never finished and I couldn't even focus in getting the "self-hosted git" part good enough. The truth is that, even with the best self-hostable software ever, still most programmers wouldn't run it. I had hoped that someone was going to make a service that hosted repositories on behalf of others, and that NIP-34 integration would make that automatically interoperable and easy for external contributors, thus removing the network-effect that GitHub has and enabling competition between multiple providers. @gsovereignty had hinted at building something like this at some point. That could have worked, but at least problems would have remained: even if repositories were addressable via Nostr, the URLs of the git repositories would have remained too important and fragile, and so people would have still become more-or-less dependent on these services and on DNS; that and it would still be a hard thing to send any contributions to repositories that didn't fit in a "patch" Nostr event. The natural solution for the big patch problem is to have your changes pushed to your own Git server as a branch, than propose that as a change to the base repository, asking the owner to pull them from your server and merge them upstream. We can call that a "merge request" or "pull request" if you prefer. But before this new revolutionary idea from @DanConwayDev that flow would be arcane and hard, but if we have a new Blossom-like protocol that makes it easy and straightforward to setup new Git repositories and push branches, all automated, pre-authorized and authenticated with Nostr events, the problem becomes as easy as uploading an image. At the same time I don't have to worry anymore about making a nice self-hostable Git server with code browsing HTML UIs and all that stuff: now Git servers can be basically headless and the job of browsing code and patches and whatnot can be entirely delegated to NIP-34 clients. We can kill Radicle now. View quoted note →