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Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep * TorrentFreak
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this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2026
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Maybe we could build a distributed Github you can't just delete with something decentralized and versioning, like Hypercore protocol or IPLD (InterPlanetary Linked Data), Ceramic Network?
About legality: that's (japanese) Nintendo using US media laws gone rogue to swipe repos on a US hoster (Github). Maybe don't use a US hoster next time.
And yeah, Europe isn't much better there.
There are already alternatives to GitHub and I think Forgejo is still working on federation. The most active Yuzu fork (as far as I'm aware) is Eden and that has its own Forgejo instance.
There's also a p2p "plugin" to git, but things like that always feel like a workaround to me. The random hacker in India also doesn't know about it.
I don't really see what that solves tbh. Not having a central source of truth seems like it could cause issues and git is already pretty much decentralized because everyone who's working on a repo will have a copy on their own device and cam upload that to whatever forge they want. Aside from that, you lose all the features a git forge gives you, especially the ability for people to actually find the repo.
Vs. a random git URL or a centralized repo everyone knows?
Everything you can find on the internet is a "random URL" in that sense but that URL can be searched on search engines and shared. But I don't know how that p2p git thing works, so maybe I'm assuming it's more complicated than it actually is.