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dgit dev here. Good question. For starters, dgit is not 100% tied to Sia, it's just a great decentralized file hosting service so we started with it as the firs

dgit dev here. Good question. For starters, dgit is not 100% tied to Sia, it's just a great decentralized file hosting service so we started with it as the first default. But to answer your question, anyone can host Sia nodes. Here are their docs on that: https://support.sia.tech/category/0OpBuOHIVD-hosting https://support.sia.tech/category/0OpBuOHIVD-hosting

cfstras 6y ago
Thanks for the info. Is there a simple way right now to use another storage backend than Sia? E.g. If I have a group of people that want to participate in hosting, but only want to host data from the people in the group? Essentially, can you use dgit to store a repo decentralised without having to set up git synchronisation tools, but while still having control over the hosting infrastructure?
- bpw 6y ago
  hey cfstras, another dgit dev here. Each repo has a storage adapter specified, so any storage infrastructure is possible, but at this moment we've only written two: sia and on tupelo network. We've had a lot of experience with running IPFS nodes internally, that might be a great option for you in this case? We are in early stages and will add more adapters as feedback informs. Also, its open source and we would love PRs :) - the storage interface is pretty straight forward: https://github.com/go-git/go-git/blob/master/storage/storer.go#L16-L23 https://github.com/go-git/go-git/blob/master/storage/storer.... Here is an example within dgit: https://github.com/quorumcontrol/dgit/blob/master/storage/chaintree/storage.go https://github.com/quorumcontrol/dgit/blob/master/storage/ch...
  - cfstras 6y ago
    Thanks for the example, looks easy enough :)
  - momack2 6y ago
    Curious why you guys didn’t got with IPFS by default? Is it related to how you wanted to incentivize backups by default, or was there a more technical reason?
notfed 6y ago
What makes Skynet more decentralized than GitHub? Guess I'm confused.
- zonotope 6y ago
  Anyone can host a Sia node, but only GitHub can manage GitHub: https://support.sia.tech/category/0OpBuOHIVD-hosting https://support.sia.tech/category/0OpBuOHIVD-hosting

cfstras 6y ago

Thanks for the info. Is there a simple way right now to use another storage backend than Sia? E.g. If I have a group of people that want to participate in hosting, but only want to host data from the people in the group? Essentially, can you use dgit to store a repo decentralised without having to set up git synchronisation tools, but while still having control over the hosting infrastructure?

bpw 6y ago
hey cfstras, another dgit dev here. Each repo has a storage adapter specified, so any storage infrastructure is possible, but at this moment we've only written two: sia and on tupelo network. We've had a lot of experience with running IPFS nodes internally, that might be a great option for you in this case? We are in early stages and will add more adapters as feedback informs. Also, its open source and we would love PRs :) - the storage interface is pretty straight forward: https://github.com/go-git/go-git/blob/master/storage/storer.go#L16-L23 https://github.com/go-git/go-git/blob/master/storage/storer.... Here is an example within dgit: https://github.com/quorumcontrol/dgit/blob/master/storage/chaintree/storage.go https://github.com/quorumcontrol/dgit/blob/master/storage/ch...
- cfstras 6y ago
  Thanks for the example, looks easy enough :)
- momack2 6y ago
  Curious why you guys didn’t got with IPFS by default? Is it related to how you wanted to incentivize backups by default, or was there a more technical reason?

notfed 6y ago

What makes Skynet more decentralized than GitHub? Guess I'm confused.

zonotope 6y ago
Anyone can host a Sia node, but only GitHub can manage GitHub: https://support.sia.tech/category/0OpBuOHIVD-hosting https://support.sia.tech/category/0OpBuOHIVD-hosting