[vaylian]

One of the problems of self-hosted forges is that spontaneous collaboration is cumbersome, because you need to keep track of your accounts across different self-hosted forges. Some people are working on https://forgefed.org/ to make this less of an issue, but Radicle is a different approach, where the entire repository ecosystem becomes distributed and people identify themselves with cryptographic identifiers to interact with the network as a whole instead of individual forges.

[mikl]

> because you need to keep track of your accounts across different self-hosted forges

Ah, that’s not that much of a problem these days, where password managers (and failing that, SSO with Facebook/Google/etc.) has become wide-spread.

And unless everyone moved to Radicle, it’s just one more system you need to track authentication info for.

[treyd]

What do I do if my signing keys are compromised? Should every developer get the equivalent of a hardware wallet to reduce that risk?

[Jhsto]

Unless we'd default to mailing lists and email patchsets would be more used, similar to sourcehut.