We can bring back git's decentralised roots with nostr.

If your project lives on GitHub, now is a good time to seriously consider hosting copies of your repositories on nostr. And by the end of reading this, you'll know how.

Using nostr-based alternatives to GitHub, such as ngit/GRASP, ensures that you won't be in as much trouble the next time GitHub goes down for hours, like it did three times in August of 2026 alone.

Solely relying on GitHub is especially risky if your project is deemed problematic by certain powerful people. We've seen this play out just this past July when the Indian government ordered GitHub to geoblock the Bitchat repository. And it is exactly for addressing scenarios like these that Dan Conway has spent the last few years building on nostr. Within days of the order, Bitchat copies were up on ngit, and on many more.

One month before that, GitHub banned a few rust-lightning contributors and deleted their pull requests (which can never be recovered) for no valid reasons. Sadly, whenever a project gets banned like this, it usually only starts a game of musical chairs that swaps one centralized problem for another. As Dan puts it: "That's not freedom technology."

When I embarked on this journey I would never have dreamed that GitHub would not only fail to adapt to the evolving landscape but would let their existing services degrade so much as the demand profile changed.

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