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You know how SETI got hundreds of thousands of people crunching numbers on their computers to analyze radiowaves in a hunt for aliens?

What if we had this, but for crawling and cataloging the internet? Like, producing an open source dataset that anyone could use to run their own ad-free unbiased search clients.

Could it work? would you volunteer idle computer time to crawl the web for it? Did I just invent something cool, or is it actually stupid?

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#Git has been kind of a lamentable failure in #distributed workflows, hasn't it?

Due to glaring omissions in its design (which, surprise, Fossil doesn't suffer from (though it suffers from other choices)), projects centralize on servers that are /at best/ federated.

What a sad joke.