This post needs a bunch more context; right now it's only immediately accessible to people who don't need the announcement [1].<p>[1] <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/curtains-for-zoosha" rel="nofollow">https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/curtains-for-zoosha</a>
It gives "Bleeb is now Scrumple! Snap me on Simpr! We're excited to share that Gringl will merge with Jigglify!"
Gleam is a popular language amongst people who like Erlang or Elixir. They are both built for the BEAM virtual machine.<p>Tangled is a decentralized GitHub alternative built on ATProto (the same protocol as Bluesky)
Headline reminds me of Poob.<p><a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/3056633-poob-has-it-for-you" rel="nofollow">https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/3056633-poob-has-it-for-you</a>
The fact that I know what both Gleam and Tangled are in this context means I spend too much time on HN and not enough time doing useful things.
Makes me nostalgic for the old days (2000s and early 2010s) when everything was WordWord. Facebook, Instagram, Myspace, Dropbox, etc. Now it's just normal words without vowels. The Grindrification of naming.
The irony of that linked page dragging a reposted mid tweet into multiple scrollable pages of “content” and in doing so reading exactly like a celeb news article
I think it would only be irony if it was guilty of the same issue it's complaining about in celeb news: not sufficiently explaining the context. If anything, it's too exhaustive.
Yeah, it turns out human culture has a lot of depth and complexity, even so-called "mid" culture. If you think you can write a better explainer, I'd love to read it.
Yeah it should definitely start with a bit of explanation, perhaps, it should start with what this site (hn, aka, hackernews) is even about!
This isn't true. I knew what gleam was (though do not use it) and what tangled was already (and I do use it), and this announcement is new information to me.
I have zero idea what your link has to do with the original post, which seems to just be the Gleam language on some new version control host?
> seems to just be the Gleam language<p>Ok so that "gleam" is a language (presumably programming language) is some of the missing context.<p>> on some new version control host<p>Is that what Tangled is? I guess I'll take your word for it.
I just happen to know of Gleam, the programming language.<p>> > on some new version control host<p>> Is that what Tangled is?<p>I don't really know. It's just a guess from the looks of it. I also don't know why this is important that Gleam is on Tangled now. Shrug. What really confused me is the commenter's link, both the link itself and its relevance.
Exactly, even if one doesn't know about either of these things (gleam & tangled), all it would take is one or two searches or even better they just visit the homepage. I suppose people have become so used to reading llm generated bluff that simple things don't appeal/make sense to them anymore.
So is it true that JESTERMAXXING at the club is the new meta?<p><a href="https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-jestermaxxing-and-is-it-the-new-club-meta-the-viral-looksmaxxing-and-incel-slang-term-explained" rel="nofollow">https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-...</a>
First hearing of tangled, tried signing up and this first time user experience needs to be tightened up. Currently unwilling to sign in because of the friction I ran into using a password manager. From what it looks like they:<p>- ask you for an email<p>- send you an email<p>- ask you for a username<p>- except you cant actually log in with this username directly<p>- im being forced to learn some new social url protocol<p>- why does the auth flow pass me through a new ui/url that seems owned by the project but visually disconnected (eg, different branding/colors for the form)<p>- my password manager couldnt bridge the gap<p>I'm notoriously fickle about dealing with signup/login friction, but the project sounds cool so hopefully my feedback is more actionable than curmudgeony.
Fwiw the sign up/in process for me was "click login, type in my existing blue sky handle, type in my password (into a bsky domain name login prompt), click authorize".<p>I expect that's the... more optimized flow at this point in this forge's life.<p>> - why does the auth flow pass me through a new ui/url that seems owned by the project but visually disconnected (eg, different branding/colors for the form)<p>Probably because of the above, identity isn't tightly associated with the app you're using here so they've stood up their own infra for it but probably not spent too much time on making it good.<p>> - except you cant actually log in with this username directly<p>Really? That's strange... I haven't made a native account... what do you need to login with then?
Better than my experience with it, just says:<p>>Failed to complete sign up. Try again later.
I tried Tangled and tried to run my own Knot, the problem I had was I'd create a repository, have it get created correctly on my Knot, but then would never see any updates to the repo on Tangled itself.<p>The main issue is that even though I had the knot with IPv6 connectivity, it only really reliably worked once I enabled lots of IPv4 NAT'ing and also created a dummy A record for the Knot.<p>This is a known issue - <a href="https://tangled.org/tangled.org/core/issues/494" rel="nofollow">https://tangled.org/tangled.org/core/issues/494</a>
For some context (which people seem to be wanting): Gleam is an interestinf language that is very tight and small. I met the folks from Gleam at the recent Ubuntu Summit and was struck by the talk they gave which made the point (about the design philosophy of staying small and careful creation) excellently. It's very watchable, and Giacomo
later explained (when I asked) that he'd hand-animated every transition. Which re-struck me as a doubly good way to reinforce the point of the talk, which was itself small and carefully created.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/E6_JqYMeNqs" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/E6_JqYMeNqs</a><p><a href="https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/gleam-and-the-value-of-small/80331" rel="nofollow">https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/gleam-and-the-value-of-small/...</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleam_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleam_(programming_language)</a>
I'd love to hear why they chose a VC funded forge over e.g. Codeberg.<p>Doesn't really fit the 'friendly language' claim IMO
"being on tangled" really just means "publishing sh.tangled.* atproto records"<p>the beauty of atproto means that you are in no way tied to the VC funded company behind the web app available at tangled.org. you merely publish your git repository using a protocol that this app will pick up and present with a nice UI<p>any other app that speaks atproto and looks at those same sh.tangled.* records will be able to access everything in the same way<p>and even the git repository itself doesn't need to be hosted by tangled the company, you can host your repository yourself. all you need is a server that can speak git, ssh, http and websocket
> the beauty of atproto means that you are in no way tied to the VC funded company behind the web app<p>This is false: you’re tied to both tangled (unless you want to self host a forge, which if you did you wouldn’t have picked tabgled) and Bluesky for your login to keep working (unless you want to self host a complex constellation of social media components).
> you’re tied to both tangled (unless you want to self host a forge, which if you did you wouldn’t have picked tabgled)<p>this is true today only because nobody has made an alternative "frontend". but the data is there, public, for anybody to see. they can't take it from you even if they really wanted to. in fact, tangled has been working on making it easier for such third-party "frontends" to exist: <a href="https://blog.tangled.org/bobbin/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.tangled.org/bobbin/</a><p>> and Bluesky for your login to keep working<p>you seem to be misinformed. "your login" is handled by your PDS, whichever it is. self-hosting a PDS doesn't require you to host anything beyond a sqlite database and a websocket connection. they are easy and very cheap to host, nothing like a "complex constellation of social media components"<p>today you can already 100% use atproto apps without having any ties whatsoever to bluesky:<p>- data: non-bluesky-hosted pds (either your own or some other host) for your data<p>- identity: the did:plc directory is managed by an independent swiss association, but you can even use did:web if you really want to<p>- relays/apps: blacksky is an example of a fully independent stack
Weird, I host exactly one thing (my PDS) and I am not at all tied to Bluesky for my login to keep working. Everything else is already publicly hosted by MANY others.
you can selfhost all components of tangled, takes about 200mb of memory and zero disk at the moment (api.tangled.org is completely stateless!): <a href="https://blog.tangled.org/bobbin/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.tangled.org/bobbin/</a>
While the way that Tangled is funded is not my preference, I see great potential in atproto for improving the internet. This and and a lot of interest in the Gleam community for the protocol made me decide it was a good place to host a mirror of the Gleam repository.
They're still on GitHub. This isn't any sort of official transition. It's just now also on this other ATProto-based forge.
We all know why... as a condition of some monetary support. It does give a sour taste, really shows what core values are: money > community. I'll just focus on using elixir for a project instead.
I wish! Alas, the Gleam project continues to be under-funded and we have not got a single penny from any venture capital company.<p>If anyone would like to give me a large amount of money in exchange for my publishing a mirror on your git forge, please get in touch ;)
No I don't know this. Do you have any source for that?
I just tried out tangled for the first time and unfortunately it seems buggy beyond being actually usable. I created a repo but can't look at it because I get a 404 for it. The login was quite painful as well as I needed several attempts to enter my atproto handle (copy-pasted every time, so no typo).
But I'm glad more people are working on git hosting options.
> I created a repo but can't look at it because I get a 404 for it.<p>I remember back in early GitHub days this used to happen too, as the repository was asynchronously created but the redirect was immediate, then after a few seconds you refreshed the page and it was there. At one point they added the interstitial that I think is still there, that basically does the "waiting then redirect" for you.
Oh yes, seems like that's it. I can now view the repo. A bit annoying when creating a repo redirects you to a URL that will give you a 404 initially (and at least for minute or so, that's how long I tried).
if anyone has more info on tangled would love to hear. been looking for a decentralized git provider for a while. started self hosting but was missing the social element
[Radicle](<a href="https://radicle.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://radicle.dev/</a>) gets a wee bit closer. It’s selfhostable and federated. You’ll have a hard time finding something with the same social gravity well as GitHub; it remains to be seen whether that’s a separable element or if it needs to ship as part of the forge itself.
I’ve been testing Radicle and it’s more focused on the distributed protocol for federating git repos, I.e. the data plane. The social / coordination control-plane angle is really thin, following users and repos goes by opaque IDs, etc.<p>It could be a better solution for agents that don’t bounce off such mundane complexity. It could be better for private repo federation (eg private collective or agent swarm.)<p>I’m interested in Tangled for the OSS/community aspect, it seems to have an advantage there with the richer identity layer for humans.
Can I interact with and discover any federated instance without having to know it exists?<p>My experience with Bluesky Vs Mastodon really showed that the friction of federation in the latter can really kill the experience for me. I think we need something like Signal is to WhatsApp but for GitHub and my impression is that the ATProto world is the only one with the potential to deliver this.
This looks like a much more sensible design for code repos: all the artifacts live in the repo.
I think it's currently non-selfhostable. You can host your own git server (knot) and CI runner (spindle) but not really the UI/API itself, but they're working on changing it. Currently it's a bit centralised
you can selfhost the appview: <a href="https://blog.tangled.org/bobbin" rel="nofollow">https://blog.tangled.org/bobbin</a>, which makes all of tangled fully selfhostable now.
Rudy from Blacksky set up their own copy of Tangled without Tangled guys even knowing about it, so it would look to me like it is self-hostable: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7r6qv3rw/post/3mko7phxhfc2i" rel="nofollow">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7r6qv3rw/po...</a>
It is self-hostable, but Tangled could disclose that great fact a bit more upfront.
I’d be interested too. Besides the fact that the company appears to be registered in Finland, I haven’t been able to find <i>any</i> information on who’s behind this, how they are funded, etc.
<a href="https://blog.tangled.org/seed/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.tangled.org/seed/</a><p>Similar groups to Bluesky (bain capital crypto) and some notable CEOs<p>GitHub's moat is not code hosting, they will need to build out the equivalent of Actions and figure out what private repos look like. Unclear how they intend to IAP with corporate identity systems, I have a hard time seeing ATProto break into that category.
Oh they raised a pretty large seed. But they don’t seem to have a business model, or at least I cannot find details on how they plan to make an actual business
I'm not sure what's been published but as someone who plays with tangled as a hobby the immediate monetisation paths I could see are:<p>- Charging to bypass the (admittedly very reasonable) rate limits on the main appview<p>- Providing paid hosting tiers for private git knots, high traffic git knots, git LOP knots, CI runners/spindles, web page hosting (via their github pages equivalent), etc<p>- Introducing a paid-for and permissioned nix binary cache platform since their CI spindle system is already nix-first.<p>- providing paid PDS hosting for corporate/business customers with SSO integration etc.<p>- SLAs and support contracts<p>There's enough options here that they have a pretty flexible path towards profitability.
> GitHub's moat is not code hosting<p>Of course not, it’s the number of people who are already signed up.<p>Instagram’s moat also most certainly isn’t a scrollable photo timeline.
There's more to it than the number of people.<p>Actions, GitHub apps/external integrations, identity/permission management<p>The most significant, near-term, non-moaty gap is still private repos, which isn't all that big of a feature on the surface, but will have major work under the surface because of how bluesky is designing private spaces.<p>I also think being primarily nix/jj focussed turns a lot of people away. Those techs are not my cup of tea, so I don't see myself using tangled.<p>I'd be curious to hear tangled's thoughts on the path to financial sustainability. Without something that sounds plausible, I'm unwilling to migrate my code forge, for risk of going away / obsolescence.
I see it attracting more people than it dissuades. You can use jj as just a prefix for Git commands like jj git init. Yet you get supercharged repo navigation abilities. If obscelecene is your concern, jujutsu is VCS agnostic and doesn't have to use Git in the future.<p>Nix is as simple as it gets, even better than docker. Just 'nix run' whatever flake file someone gives you and everything works magically.<p>This codeforge going away can't happen for me because I self-host it.
I'm willing to give Tangled a go too with a project, but feature set to bridge the gap still has a long way to go (no idea how long it'll take). Github outages (especially when just viewing repos!) are getting way too disrupting.
Why Tangled instead of something more established like Codeberg, or if f/loss, Forgejo or Gitea?<p>Just because ATProto vibes?
disclaimer: i maintain tangled, some reasons to try might be:<p>- tangled federates: <a href="https://blog.tangled.org/federation" rel="nofollow">https://blog.tangled.org/federation</a><p>- native stacked PRs: <a href="https://blog.tangled.org/stacking" rel="nofollow">https://blog.tangled.org/stacking</a><p>- tangled implements mitchell's vouch system: <a href="https://blog.tangled.org/vouching" rel="nofollow">https://blog.tangled.org/vouching</a>
> - tangled federates: <a href="https://blog.tangled.org/federation" rel="nofollow">https://blog.tangled.org/federation</a><p>People have been talking about federation across forges for a couple of years and seems like its finally at least close to being a real thing!? That's absolutely amazing!!
yep, I host two separate Tangled knots; one for my personal use and another for work at the Cambridge Computer Science department. Having large git repos on a server near me is great, and because I can sync the bare git repos it’s easy to run a local forge as well.
What are some of the practical use cases of federation in git workflows ?
It also has a pretty fundamental design flaw: issue /PR comments belong to the server where the commenter is hosted, not to the repo. I’m sure they will find a workaround but finding that reduced confidence they actually understand the problem they are solving.
this is changing very soon :)<p>see knot2[0] for some initial experiments: <a href="https://tangled.org/oyster.cafe/knot2" rel="nofollow">https://tangled.org/oyster.cafe/knot2</a><p>> As time goes on we are re-assessing the idea of users owning what is "collaborative data" (issues, PRs, etc.) on their PDSes - soon may come the day that an issue also lives on the knot as a source of truth, with an accompanying pointer record on user PDS to attest that it's theirs
We’re solving for this very issue. Issues & pulls will belong to the repo, backed by a “COB” (collaborative object) system.
> something more established like Codeberg, or if f/loss, Forgejo or Gitea?<p>Codeberg's git hosting <i>is</i> a Forgejo instance, actually.
Yes, separation between git storage and identity. Very simple to use your own Knot instead of the default knot1, just enter your own website link to it. Not as beholden to Github downtimes that are out of your hands.<p>I was using Codeberg this morning, now I'm on Tangled. All I had to do was switch remote origin.
Yes, frustration with GitHub outages certainly made me start to look elsewhere.
Gleam looks interesting, but I can't say I'm too impressed with Tangled... it won't even let me sign up.
How does tangled compare with codeberg? Seem like a cool project, wonder how the migration story is.
I use both. Tangled is missing some important features (private repos, protected branches). The ui feels more comfy to me, though. And Codeberg is quite slow for me.<p>Idk if I can give you toooo much about migration, since I haven't used any CICD kind of stuff; just having repos to push to is super simple if you use their hosted knots. Also not too complicated to host a knot yourself; I'm hosting my own knot, and I like that I own at least one of the servers that I'm pushing code to.
Tangled is also VC funded, something to consider.
It doesn't really matter, you can host your own knot (git backend), spindle (CI/CD worker), and there are already alternative apps to access the same public, consumable records without centralized infra: <a href="https://untangled.wisp.place/" rel="nofollow">https://untangled.wisp.place/</a>
I just switched to Tangled. It was actually very similar experience. I will be using Tangled henceforth!
What makes Tangled different from other forges like Forgejo/Codeberg is that its built around the ATProto federation protocol
What's tangled? Which Gleam?
Don't open the story, don't follow the links, and last but not the least don't read the texts!
What's a search engine?
Smashly and GoFlam have merged.<p>Grimbl and Sporkify are joining forces.<p>GetSocks is now on Zoobazoop.
I guess this is one of those cases where, "if you know, you know."<p>I'm not sure of the link on the post though... I didn't see anything at all that jumped out as pertinent to this "Tangled" thing. I get that many posts on HN just aren't meant for me... but this seems to take that to an extreme.<p>Edit: yes I see the URL is Tangled... But that is a very subtle cue that I didn't notice until the third time I clicked through to see if the landing page really said nothing about Tangled.
First hearing about Tangled, interesting.
The linked page creates more questions than it answers. Do we need to disentangle this?
Github is fine. I know it has issues, but for the day to day random OS gig it has never failed me.
Wish a git forge would support both Actions and Gitlab CI pipelines. Reuse community workflows for simple actions, default to Gitlab CI for anything custom.
the way the CI runners on tangled work, you could just plug in your own bespoke runner as long as it fits the interface. we implement two such "engines": nixery and microvm. you can plug an engine like tack[0], which can act like a bridge interface to other CI systems. there is also loom[1], which is a kubernetes based engine.<p>[0]: <a href="https://tangled.org/mitchellh.com/tack" rel="nofollow">https://tangled.org/mitchellh.com/tack</a><p>[1]: tangled.org/evan.jarrett.net/loom
If you too are wondering their CI story, it is based on NixOS:<p><a href="https://blog.tangled.org/ci/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.tangled.org/ci/</a><p><a href="https://blog.tangled.org/spindle-microvm/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.tangled.org/spindle-microvm/</a><p>Curiously the link to the spec is broken: <a href="https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core/blob/master/docs/spindle/pipeline.md" rel="nofollow">https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core/blob/master/docs/spindle...</a>
How are folks doing CI on tangled?
Picture this: someone “moderates” your bluesky account for some unrelated reason and you’re no longer able to manage your own source codes…
Depends on the type of moderation. Most moderation, which happens via labels on Bluesky, doesn’t prevent you from logging into your account. That would require a full suspension or ban, which is much rarer. And, as others have noted, you could just move to a different PDS. You don’t even have to self-host!
this is simply false: bluesky moderating your account will have no effect on what happens with it on tangled. on the off-chance that your account is hosted by bluesky's PDS AND your account gets deleted for violating their terms, yes, you will lose complete access to that account. you can avoid this by either following their TOS or hosting your own PDS or joining the tangled PDS instead.
This regularly happens with Microsoft's GitHub. You can also opt to not use Bluesky for authentication.
If this is a concern you can just migrate to a different PDS
Isn't that the same as Github "moderating" my Github account for some unrelated reason? Also, since Bluesky is decentralised, can't I just host my own data?
this is like complaining that you can't login anywhere because google banned your gmail account...
call me back when it's on Poob
As someone who has no idea what either of these things are, this reads like a satirical headline. I get an email like this about my company's myriad platforms nearly daily
Congratulations! You’re an adult on a website. If you do t know what something means, you have the ability to click the link and learn, which would’ve taken you far less time than this pointless snarky comment that’s been made so many times already.<p>At least try being original.
Flink has acquired Cajoo
Tangled-ha... Now I know what the next one will be called.
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Wow I had no idea, thank you for your well-reasoned critique! I can tell you're very capable of evaluating the merits of complex socio-technological systems. Your wisdom is unparalleled; now I see we all should just keep using X and GitHub.
Not sure how good of a social protocol it is, but I see ATProto/PDS as a possible succesor to solid [1], if they implment the permissioned data access model correctly. Which would certainly have a lot of good usecases, beyond social apps.<p>[1] solid: <a href="https://solidproject.org/about" rel="nofollow">https://solidproject.org/about</a>
This comment seems to lack nuance
I agree (with caveats and not as strongly), but claiming no utility is a bit much.
> They reinvented a worse Twitter (it failed)<p>Bluesky has 9-11x times the number of total users as Twitter did three years after its launch. It has somewhere between 15-20x the number of MAUs as Twitter had. It has not failed even a little bit.<p>> Now they're trying to reinvent a worse GitHub (not off to a great start)<p>You seem to think this is the same group of people who started Bluesky. You’re wrong. Not only that, you’ve failed to name how Tangled is a worse Github when the burden of proof is on you.<p>> Abandon AT proto - dumb idea, all empty ego on the part of the creators, no utility for the masses<p>Curious that the number of atproto accounts and users only seems to be growing, because that’s not what I’d expect if there was no utility for the masses.
bubble-ass headline
"federation" has a certain stink to it, I regret creating an account just now. I didn't realize it was that type of website.
I have no idea what Gleam or Tangled is, so for me this headline might as well be an article from The Onion satirizing HN. I also refuse to believe any of these two things are large enough, like say Postgres, that one can claim everyone should know it. Surely writing an informative headline for ”hackers in general” can’t be that difficult.