Sure, the UX might get slightly worse (early on at least) for some users but we are talking about programming related services. I do not think that having to us

Sure, the UX might get slightly worse (early on at least) for some users but we are talking about programming related services. I do not think that having to use a well defined and popular standard protocol with the client of their choice in order to create a pull request or an issue would make contributing to a project difficult for a computer scientist. Instead, I would argue that not having the ability to just send a mail/post to a mailing list/newsgroup by using my favourite SMTP/NNTP client without creating any form of account in a property service and without clicking buttons in a slow js-ridden web interface in order to create an issue or post a pull request is a bad UX. > copy the URL, pull it down, make changes, push and click a button for a pull request All of these (except clicking a button for a pull request) are possible just with git, they are not really github nor centralised-only features. > Until that happens the idea of decentralizing things is just going to remain a pipedream. I find sending an email and using NNTP with the client of my choice a lot easier than using a forum and a lot easier than using the github issue/pull request interface. Thus I would argue that this happened many years ago.