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Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
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[–] 18 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

There are already alternatives to GitHub and I think Forgejo is still working on federation. The most active Yuzu fork (as far as I'm aware) is Eden and that has its own Forgejo instance.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    There's also a p2p "plugin" to git, but things like that always feel like a workaround to me. The random hacker in India also doesn't know about it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I don't really see what that solves tbh. Not having a central source of truth seems like it could cause issues and git is already pretty much decentralized because everyone who's working on a repo will have a copy on their own device and cam upload that to whatever forge they want. Aside from that, you lose all the features a git forge gives you, especially the ability for people to actually find the repo.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    especially the ability for people to actually find the repo.

    Vs. a random git URL or a centralized repo everyone knows?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    Everything you can find on the internet is a "random URL" in that sense but that URL can be searched on search engines and shared. But I don't know how that p2p git thing works, so maybe I'm assuming it's more complicated than it actually is.

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