Philpax icon

Philpax

Notes · Other Peoples' Talks · FOSDEM 2026 · Radicle - Local-First Code Collaboration

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BCVGUW-radicle/

  • Started with GitHub, but Microsoft is a US-based entity and that's complicated for geopolitical reasons (especially if you're in a sanctioned country)
  • Git is already decentralised; so how can we replicate the GitHub layer in a more decentralised way?
  • Radicle is an attempt to solve that
  • Using Git namespaces
    • Every peer has their own namespace
    • By combining the references and walking the graph, a linear representation can be formed