which part is a scam, again? I see interesting open source software and them funding open source with real world money. If this is what scams look like I hope we see more of them.
The part where you discuss Radicle on Hacker News. The commentators here are not always open minded, and they often love to bash everything which they think is cryptocurrency related.
It's a bunch of crypto bros aggressively marketing a product with no clear use case. If you ask about how the monetization works they frantically wave their hands. They also have been trying to obfuscate their connections with their radicle now rad coin and keep claiming it's unrelated despite the old naming.
Looking forward to the fediverse posts later today, it'll be a good time.
The Radicle project doesn't involve the crypto token, started by Radworks, in its technology.
It's also stated in the FAQ on the website (https://radicle.xyz/faq) that the project is funded by Radworks and also provides a link to the funding page.
I, for one, work on Radicle and what I care about is the data sovereignty and local-first code collaboration. We're building on top of Git to provide a local-first, extensible collaboration experience -- avoiding walled gardens like GitHub :)
As a project team, we only posted once on HN when we were announcing our v1.0 release candidates. The other two posts have been from other people outside of the organisation, so it's nice to see there's interest in the project but don't blame us for that kind of hype :')
