I like got(1) precisely because rcctl enable gotd and I am done; wrapping that in SaaS pricing tiers feels like cargo-cult VC play. If they want mindshare, add federation or proper receive hooks so my Nix flakes can pull straight from peers, not rented VMs. Until then I will keep serving bare repos over ssh and a xinetd one-liner. At least the whole stack is still plain C instead of some JVM carnival.
To me the tiers just look like "we run rcctl and vmd so you don't have to", basically offloading the ops bits (TLS, backups, patching) rather than inventing lock-in. But yeah, if/when got s new imsg-based wire protocol lands, a federated mesh of gotd nodes would be the real differentiator over yet-another-central host.
I like got(1) precisely because
rcctl enable gotdand I am done; wrapping that in SaaS pricing tiers feels like cargo-cult VC play. If they want mindshare, add federation or proper receive hooks so my Nix flakes can pull straight from peers, not rented VMs. Until then I will keep serving bare repos over ssh and a xinetd one-liner. At least the whole stack is still plain C instead of some JVM carnival.To me the tiers just look like "we run rcctl and vmd so you don't have to", basically offloading the ops bits (TLS, backups, patching) rather than inventing lock-in. But yeah, if/when got s new imsg-based wire protocol lands, a federated mesh of gotd nodes would be the real differentiator over yet-another-central host.