Apr 29, 2026 git is decentralized, but what of the rest? GitHub seems to be crumbling the past couple of weeks. Whatever the reason, ultimately its not great for 90% of the world's OSS to depend on one provider. Centralized systems always crumble; it's the emails, gits, and IRCs that stand the test of time. Tangled aims to fit in this space, allow me to explain. Code collaboration has always made use of two protocols, one for code transfer and one for communication: It began with the email flow: git (code transfer) + email (comms) Then there was GitHub: git (code transfer) + GitHub the website (comms) There is the ForgeFed project: git (code transfer) + maybe ActivityPub (comms) We are building Tangled: git (code transfer) + AT protocol (comms) Tangled federates events among git servers (called "knots"). You can collaborate on repositories on any server and you can fork across servers.…