I don’t need the client computers to be alive, only the central server (which could be github.com for example, so not even a server I manage).

That would require my machines to be git servers, right? And hence they should also be on, right? Or am I missing something? Most of the time, my laptop is shut off.

That doesn’t solve the problem of forgetting :(

I could train myself to get in the habit, but maybe auto saving is easier, no?

Sorry, but I’m not really following here. Do you mean like git add remote and have another remote? What would the source be?

Two issues with manual pushing that I have:

• you have to remember to push
• you either get more commits than you need, or you have to do extra work to either clean up or put them in separate branches

When I looked into solutions, I thought of syncthing, but read comments from people saying they had issues with this approach, especially regarding the .git directory

I mean… That’s kinda what git does, in a way… Right?

I have considered this approach, but there are several things I had issues with.

• there is still a degree of latency. It’s not a deal breaker, but it is annoying
• clipboard programs don’t work. They copy to the remote host’s clipboard. I bet there’s a solution to this, but I couldn’t find it from spending a limited time looking into it.
• in the rare case the host is unreachable, I am kinda screwed. Not a deal breaker since its rare, but the host has to be always on, whether the git solution only requires it to be on when it syncs

To address the issues you brought up:

• less commits: this would be resolved by squashing every time I make a commit. The auto save commits will be wiped. If I really hated commits, I could just amend instead of commit, but I rather have the history.
• forgetting to git pull: the hooks I talked about will take care of that. I won’t have to ever worry about forgetting anymore.

It might not be what you’re looking for, but I use rsync (the android client is syncopoli). You will have to do some light scripting though (but no other apps involved).

Can you please demonstrate how async workflows and monads resolve this issue?

Wouldn’t effect systems still be considered exceptions, but handled differently?

What does Google play do to remediate it?

Couldn’t you do that by just joining an existing server?

Macos has homebrew, which I think can do the same thing!

Does help combat censorship?

What about pushing out code anonymously to avoid lawsuits?

Do you use a package manager? It should take care of updating everything for you at once.

To each their own I guess, databases are ridiculously expensive when managed and I always self host.

A team? For what OP described, all you need is one person

My issue with it arises when data is not interpreted as I expected, like because of weird white space issues for example.

if enough people do it

And now will you make sure of that? As the other person mentioned, without a campaign, it’s futile. Most people won’t even hear of this

Xmpp definitely wins in privacy. What is there to privacy more than message content and metadata? Matrix definitely fails the second one, and is E2E still an issue for public groups? I don’t remember if they fixed that.

XMPP being a protocol built for extensibility means it will be hard for it not to keep up with times.

On your point of picking one or the other, I’d say pick the one you like and bridges will help you connect to the other. But XMPP came way before matrix, and I believe they fractured the community instead of building it.

There’s a good reason all the big techs built on top of xmpp (meta, Google, etc). It’s a very good protocol and satisfies modern demands very well.