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by zlatan_todoric 833 days ago
you can choose which nodes you follow and which nodes you block - you can even decide that you will seed particular repos and not the entire node.

(P.S. I am working at Radicle)

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How would you know which nodes to block?
Any node with "problematic" behaviour can be blocked.

But please note that you can also choose a "block everyone, follow just the good ones" (i.e. a selective) seeding policy [1]).

[1] - https://docs.radicle.xyz/guides/seeder#a-selective-seeding-p...

so it's the same as cloning a repo locally, auto updating it, and exposing a mirror to the world?

how will this not devolve into freeNet fiasco when popular repos start to go wild on content?

edit: i see from the finance thread you will likely take on maven/npm/etc with crowd hosting+funding so I'm now more curious how cheap it will be for bad actors to push intentional malicious content, since now it's mostly about cost of having consensus over the mirrors