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New comment by delf in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

delf — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:31:41 +0000

Or just push to an S3 bucket with `gitsocial mirror `

New comment by delf in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

delf — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:11:03 +0000

Creator of GitSocial here: it's a Go binary CLI/TUI that lets you store all your issues, PRs, etc. in the git itself and self-host on any S3-compatible bucket: https://gitsocial.org/.

On more detailed level, it allows forgeless issue management, cross-forge PRs, git-native discussions, and much more.

It has not dependencies, just git itself. Happy to answer any questions!

New comment by delf in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

delf — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:22:03 +0000

I created GitSocial, it stores issues, PRs, etc straight in git. Works on any git forge and allows cross-forge PRs and collaboration in general.

https://github.com/gitsocial-org/gitsocial

New comment by delf in "Incident with Actions and Pages"

delf — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:28:28 +0000

If you would like less dependence on GitHub for issues and PRs, please check out GitSocial, it stores everything in git itself, making them portable and offline-first.

New comment by delf in "Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

delf — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:37:28 +0000

Discovery is still in the works, but the core idea is that all collaboration data is stored in git itself (be that the project or a fork). It's git all the way down :)

New comment by delf in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

delf — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:29:50 +0000

You're welcome! I'm the creator of GitSocial, happy to answer any questions.

New comment by delf in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

delf — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:19:55 +0000

In "What I gave up" section author mentions his social graph. It is possible to take your social graph and collaboration history using GitSocial. It also allows cross-forge pull requests between any git hosts. All without 3rd party dependencies.

New comment by delf in "Tangled – We need a federation of forges"

delf — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:19:06 +0000

Not if you do it over git itself on the existing forge. You basically store everything in git and federate via git forks/mirrors.

New comment by delf in "Tangled – We need a federation of forges"

delf — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:12:17 +0000

There's a federated identity spec and implementation: https://github.com/gitsocial-org/gitsocial/blob/main/documen.... For GH/GL, just an api call to verify signature, for custom domains, it's .well-known/gitmsg-id.json

New comment by delf in "We need a federation of forges"

delf — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:08:16 +0000

One approach is to keep it all in git itself, the way GitSocial does: https://gitsocial.org/

New comment by delf in "We need a federation of forges"

delf — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:06:23 +0000

GitSocial solves this: https://gitsocial.org/

New comment by delf in "We need a federation of forges"

delf — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:05:18 +0000

GitSocial allows cross-forge collaboration without any 3rd party dependencies as it keeps everything in git: <https://github.com/gitsocial-org/gitsocial/blob/main/documen...>

Git IS the federation layer in this case.

New comment by delf in "GitSocial"

delf — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:56:54 +0000

GitSocial is a cross-forge collaboration platform that allows you to store all collaboration data (issues, PRs, releases, etc) as git commits with structured trailers on gitmsg/* branches, syncing via git fetch and git push.

This allows you to stay independent from forges and to collaborate across them (open issues and PRs across forges).

GitSocial

delf — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:56:54 +0000

Article URL: https://gitsocial.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941393

Points: 1

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New comment by delf in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

delf — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:38:23 +0000

Creator of GitSocial here, check it out if you'd like to have better control of your data and be protected from such things: https://github.com/gitsocial-org/gitsocial

New comment by delf in "Show HN: X Writer – VS Code extension to post tweets from your editor"

delf — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:55:57 +0000

I built GitSocial that allows you to bypass Twitter/Bluesky in favor posting and following straight in your repository: https://github.com/gitsocial-org/gitsocial.

Similarly, VS Code extension is at: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gitsocia...

New comment by delf in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

delf — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:04:54 +0000

I'm working on GitSocial - decentralized open source social network built entirely on Git.

https://gitsocial.org/

Think of it as tool that can turn any repository into a blog/social network in place.

New comment by delf in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

delf — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:53:28 +0000

The outage impacted GitSocial minor version bump release: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitSocia...

There's no way to tell, and after about 30 minutes, the release process on VS Code Marketplace failed with a cryptic message: "Repository signing for extension file failed.". And there's no way to restart/resume it.

New comment by delf in "GitSocial - Decentralized social layer for Git repositories."

delf — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:07:18 +0000

Decentralized social layer for Git repositories.

GitSocial - Decentralized social layer for Git repositories.

delf — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:07:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/gitsocial-org/gitsocial

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731732

Points: 2

# Comments: 1