will this sure is gonna go well :sarcmark:
it almost feels like when Google+ got shoved into every google product because someone had a bee in their bonnet
flipside, I guess, is that we’ll soon (at scale!) get to start seeing just how far those ideas can and can’t scale
I’ve been on-and-off trying to get gittorrent packaged for Nix. I don’t really care about Web-oriented forge workflows; I fully acknowledge that I’m something of a curmudgeon in that respect.
that actually seems fantastic and at least somewhat amenable to the establishment of a web UI (akin to how torrent trackers extract metadata about torrents, but more focused on the content of the repo). is it a nightmare to make a nix package for?
It’s not a nightmare, but I’ve yet to succeed. npm2nix and node2nix struggle. napalm puts up a good effort, but doesn’t quite work either. The biggest sticking point right now is that cjb used a custom DHT implementation with some patches, and I’ve gotta integrate that somehow.
I will be overjoyed if somebody else writes a working Nix flake. I’ve tried three times so far, and I bet it’ll take five total.
I might give gittorrent a closer look as soon as some of my time frees up. packaging complex node stuff for Nix is always a bit of a pain, but it’s a pain I’m now very familiar with
e:
A method for registering friendly usernames on Bitcoin’s blockchain, so that a written username can be used to find a user instead of an ugly hex string.
ugh I hate this part, but hopefully there’s a way to do something like what Mastodon and Lemmy do for external identity verification
