[cap10morgan]

dgit dev here. Good question. For starters, dgit is not 100% tied to Sia, it's just a great decentralized file hosting service so we started with it as the first default.

But to answer your question, anyone can host Sia nodes. Here are their docs on that: https://support.sia.tech/category/0OpBuOHIVD-hosting

[cfstras]

Thanks for the info.

Is there a simple way right now to use another storage backend than Sia? E.g. If I have a group of people that want to participate in hosting, but only want to host data from the people in the group?

Essentially, can you use dgit to store a repo decentralised without having to set up git synchronisation tools, but while still having control over the hosting infrastructure?

[bpw]

hey cfstras, another dgit dev here. Each repo has a storage adapter specified, so any storage infrastructure is possible, but at this moment we've only written two: sia and on tupelo network.

We've had a lot of experience with running IPFS nodes internally, that might be a great option for you in this case? We are in early stages and will add more adapters as feedback informs.

Also, its open source and we would love PRs :) - the storage interface is pretty straight forward:

https://github.com/go-git/go-git/blob/master/storage/storer....

Here is an example within dgit: https://github.com/quorumcontrol/dgit/blob/master/storage/ch...

[momack2]

Curious why you guys didn’t got with IPFS by default? Is it related to how you wanted to incentivize backups by default, or was there a more technical reason?

[cfstras]

Thanks for the example, looks easy enough :)

[notfed]

What makes Skynet more decentralized than GitHub? Guess I'm confused.

[zonotope]

Anyone can host a Sia node, but only GitHub can manage GitHub: https://support.sia.tech/category/0OpBuOHIVD-hosting