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Tangled
Social coding platform on the AT Protocol (Bluesky's network): repos on self-hostable 'knots', CI on 'spindles', stacked pull requests via Jujutsu, round-based review, and a vouching web of trust.
tangled.org/Active
Blog posts through 2026-08-17; €3.8M seed round announced 2026-03-02; core repo commit 4 days before 2026-10-25. Site labelled alpha. (checked 2026-10-25)
In Version control beyond git
Where it stands apart
- Do you need an account to use it? account required (22% of 18 others)
- Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? AT Protocol (0% of 20 others)
- Where does the authoritative copy of a project live? a network of federated or peer-to-peer servers (5% of 19 others)
- Are stacked changes (a chain of dependent changes reviewed separately) a first-class workflow? available, but not the main workflow (13% of 15 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (90% of 20 others)
- How is the main thing licensed? permissive open source (MIT/Apache/BSD) (53% of 19 others)
- Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? yes (79% of 19 others)
- Who is it for? developers (90% of 20 others)
- How does it relate to git repositories? built on git: reads and writes git repositories directly (53% of 19 others)
- Can you commit, branch, and read history with no network connection? yes (94% of 17 others)
- Is it designed with AI coding agents in mind? no (65% of 20 others)
- What is the basic unit of history? (pick the most specific that applies) snapshots (commits) with no identity that survives a rewrite (74% of 19 others)
- How are merge conflicts mainly handled? must be resolved before the merge or commit completes (65% of 17 others)
- What size of project is it designed for? ordinary source repositories (74% of 19 others)
Nearest neighbors
- Gitea 76% of 17 shared answers match
- Radicle 76% of 17 shared answers match
- zz 69% of 16 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-25 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | permissive open source (MIT/Apache/BSD) MIT (core monorepo README). | source 2026-10-25 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | company with a paid product, tier, or ads Tangled Labs Oy, seed-funded; hosted instances free, no paid tier published. Poll bug: no option for 'company, free so far'. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | yes | source 2026-10-25 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | stands apart account required Quick start begins with login or sign up (AT Protocol identity). | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | developers | source 2026-10-25 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | stands apart AT Protocol AT Protocol for identity and social data is what sets it apart; code is git. | source 2026-10-26 |
| How does it relate to git repositories? | built on git: reads and writes git repositories directly | source 2026-10-25 |
| Where does the authoritative copy of a project live? | stands apart a network of federated or peer-to-peer servers 'AT Protocol enables federated code-collaboration'; knots can be self-hosted. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Can you commit, branch, and read history with no network connection? | yes | source 2026-10-25 |
| Is it designed with AI coding agents in mind? | no Not designed for agents; web of trust targets 'LLM spam'. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Which layer of the stack does it mainly replace? | the forge layer (hosting, review, or merging) | source 2026-10-25 |
| What is the basic unit of history? (pick the most specific that applies) | snapshots (commits) with no identity that survives a rewrite Git commits; uses jj change IDs for stacking. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Are stacked changes (a chain of dependent changes reviewed separately) a first-class workflow? | stands apart available, but not the main workflow 'Natively supports stacking using Jujutsu'; plain PRs remain the default. | source 2026-10-25 |
| How are merge conflicts mainly handled? | must be resolved before the merge or commit completes | source 2026-10-25 |
| What size of project is it designed for? | ordinary source repositories | source 2026-10-25 |
| Is code review part of the product? | yes, it has its own review interface | source 2026-10-25 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- Web page · blog.tangled.org/ · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · tangled.org/ · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · tangled.org/tangled.org/core · read 2026-10-25
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