[deskamess]

Remember how when Linus got mad/tired of the previous version control system (Bit-something?) he went ahead and started git. I wonder if anyone is mad enough.

Is it possible to implement an alt-reddit in git? Every comment is a branch of the parent. Every post thread is a tree after all. If you could attach metadata to a branch you could keep counters (for upvotes-downvotes), golds given, etc. I know not much of how git works internally so there are probably many caveats (how does editing a comment work without branching). Sharing whole posts could be a matter of letting someone else checkout a post URL and you could dig to get all the comments under there. You could also have 'post aggregators' (like torrent) and some sort of UI that displays what reddit does today. So technically you could have decentralized alt-sub-reddits that advertise themselves/content to aggregators.