On: Git as a janky Twitter replacement

[yellowapple]

Just use a server other than GitHub. Boom, federated and NSFW-friendly.

[xigoi → yellowapple]

Then the tool for subscribing to all people won't be able to discover you.

[rakoo → xigoi]

That's why you need to split "list of all people" (necessarily centralized for discovery) and actual storage (decentralized). Everyone can have their own repo anywhere as long as it's fetchable by git, and the creator of the tool can maintain a list of all repos branches

[yellowapple → xigoi]

The tool would just need to add your server to its list of servers to scan.