[alchemist1e9]

> I agree it's intellectually stimulating. But besides that, is there a reason they are particularly passionate about distributed source code repositories?

I’m surprised the answer isn’t obvious to you, yet again maybe I shouldn’t be as I suspect you’re a nocoiner.

Distributed decentralized anything is fundamentally about censorship resistance. Understanding that, for me, make the answer as to why they are passionate about distributed decentralized version control … they are concerned about coming censorship attempts on software, which honestly seems pretty likely given the current authoritarian direction of western civilization in general.

I’d also speculate that your perception isn’t shared by everyone based on the large number of upvotes on this submission.

[zlatan_todoric]

For me it is not only about censorship resistance, it is also about having everything stored in git (so you loose nothing if you decide to move around) and about easy way to be a node itself (you installed Radicle? Congrats, you're a node in the network - you participate, you help, you extend. You can make a permanent node with domain name but you're already a node once you installed Radicle and started the node daemon).

It is this radical idea that everyone can easily be an equal participant in the network and that they have power over what they want and don't want. Open source nature further helps you to adapt things - don't like our web UI local-first interface? Build your own one or adapt ours to your need.