Git LFS is popular, but forge support sucks:
- GitHub hosting is unreasonably expensive
- Self-hosting breaks forge-based access control
Tangled is in a unique position to do better here by starting off with an open identity infrastructure and first-class self-hosting. A good implementation would include deduplication (e.g. FastCDC) and allow users without write access to submit PRs containing LFS-managed data, even to self-hosted repos, without introducing new abuse risks.
This might be moot if git gets better native support for binary files, but that seems unlikely to happen any time soon.
@anil.recoil.org had a look at this already and noted some challenges: https://bsky.app/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3ll5fituyr22f