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by CaptainOfCoit 780 days ago
Who are "they"? Submitter seems unrelated to Radicle. And what you mean "advertising"? It's a normal HN item, posted like all the others, upvoted to the frontpage like all the other frontpage items.

> ie. what real world problem is it supposed to solve?

Seems pretty clear from the submitted page.

Problem: centralized code hosting platforms [...] single entity(ies) controlling the network(s)

Solution: Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner, and users are in full control of their data and workflow.

Literally the first paragraph on the page.