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Comment by LockAndLol | Hacker News Reader

Really like the idea of decentralizing projects and their social artifacts. Getting rid of github for project discovery is a great goal.

Additionally running all of this on top of I2P would counter any embargoes that centralized forges like Github have to abide by. Projects by Iranians wouldn't suddenly disappear from radicle and neither would things like PopcornTime.

I'll be checking this out. I hope they have an executable with a good CLI. The GUI or embedded webserver for the social part of radicle can come later (unless they already have it)

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> github for project discovery

Honestly I don't think I've ever "discovered" a project simply by searching/browsing github itself. Usually it is through places like reddit and HN, and blog posts when searching for how to do something. I've never gone to github and just searched for some random project name...

On the other hand I also don't use github "stars", which I see more and more people talk about, so maybe some people use github differently than I do.

Follow interesting people. They star repos that pop up in your feed. I have found that to be a good way to find specific projects. A rust contributor is going to star other rust projects. They will go beyond the trending repos and that's how you find something interesting. I maintain a separate GitHub account just for curating a rss feed.

I sometimes visit https://github.com/ and the three "Explore repositories" in the sidebar seems tailored based on my activity. I've clicked a few, bookmarked some and even submitted PRs.

It's interesting. I feel like for each repository I understand why the recommendation is made, but the repos are completely disconnected from what's useful to me. It's a bit like "you bought milk, would you like a milking machine cleaner as well?"

I never noticed this. Very cool, and very accurate

To improve the discovery of better alternatives to popular products and services, some of us are building a browser extension. It uses an in-page pop-up based on URL patterns to make community-curated suggestions: https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/better

Another great source for discovering FOSS projects is https://opensource.builders

github "stars" are a very poor measure of popularity and in no way a measure of quality.

I2P is really slow, though.

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