You mean a “github repo”. Git by itself doesn’t give a hoot about validating authors what-so-ever (I could sign as "Bill Gates ", and git would happily accept the commit), and it’s not federated (multiple people manually downloading various states of the repo at various times doesn’t count).
Github ensures owners are who they are, as linked to their profile (though email validation only goes as far as “Well, they clicked the link in the email, so this must be their email account”). Github also isn’t federated, since that one site going down takes all the repos with it (unless someone had it cloned, but again, random people downloading at random times yields different states of the repo, depending on when the clone/fetch occured, but then you’d end up with tens/hundreds/thousands of sources of various levels of truth).
It’s not a minor nitpick. The comment was that “nobody calls a git repo a blockchain”. It’s because it’s not a blockchain, or even remotely similar to one.
You mean a “github repo”. Git by itself doesn’t give a hoot about validating authors what-so-ever (I could sign as "Bill Gates ", and git would happily accept the commit), and it’s not federated (multiple people manually downloading various states of the repo at various times doesn’t count).
Github ensures owners are who they are, as linked to their profile (though email validation only goes as far as “Well, they clicked the link in the email, so this must be their email account”). Github also isn’t federated, since that one site going down takes all the repos with it (unless someone had it cloned, but again, random people downloading at random times yields different states of the repo, depending on when the clone/fetch occured, but then you’d end up with tens/hundreds/thousands of sources of various levels of truth).
It’s not a minor nitpick. The comment was that “nobody calls a git repo a blockchain”. It’s because it’s not a blockchain, or even remotely similar to one.
You are right, I was just poking fun a little. No hard feelings. You did just kind of um akshually my use of um akshually tho
Github is a website, controlled by no less than Microsoft lol.
A git repo can be spread out like a “blockchain” without the messy validation and coin earnings, maybe that was the intended comparison?
Could it be? Sure, I don’t see a technological reason why someone couldn’t build a system like that.
Are they now (federated, or blockchained)? No.
True.
I’m working on a decentralised sharing protocol, but it uses reciprocal sharing so you’d have to have large storage anyways.
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