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Good question!

One of the key ideas is that each user chooses what repositories they host via pretty fine-grained policies. This means you can easily block content you're not interested in seeding, or simply configure your node to only host content you explicitly allow.

You can also choose which public nodes to connect to if you'd rather not connect to random nodes on the network; though I don't expect most users to go this route, as you are more likely to miss content you're interested in.

Though Git (and thus Radicle) can replicate arbitrary content, it's not particularly good with large binary files (movies, albums etc.), so I expect that type of content to still be shared on BitTorrent, even if Radicle were to be popular.



Is there nice interop with BitTorrent for those cases, similar to how Git Annex adds large binary support to git?

For example, if I use Radicle to version a machine learning project, can I use a Magnet link for multi-GB model files?


You can already use it with git-annex to store binaries using the git-annex-remote-git-aafs[1] special remote.

Although I would be careful and make sure you understand what it is doing to your branch namespace. Even though in the worst case it would not save any space over directly committing binaries, they are in orphan branches that can be pruned without rewriting history.

But even so, you can just use any number of git-annex special remotes to bypass using git for sharing files.

They may eventually add first-party support for git-annex. But nothing is stopping you from using it now.

[1]: https://github.com/domo141/git-annex-remote-git-aafs


Last commit is 5 years ago. That is a lot in dog years.


Any plans to add support for git-annex?


Random thought but what about calling it a subscription?

For example, allow users to be able to subscribe to specific repos or specific topics or specific people etc




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