Something that struck me yesterday as this started, is that Github isn’t really just a dvcs hosting solution, Github is a social network. It’s easy to change t

Something that struck me yesterday as this started, is that Github isn’t really just a dvcs hosting solution, Github is a social network. It’s easy to change the remote origin of a git repository. It’s not hard to migrate a project to Gitlab etc, and duplicate all the technical features of Github. What’s really hard is replacing the social graph. If you’re a large project with a lot of contributors, onboarding everyone is not going to be easy. About as easy as convincing all your friends to stop using Facebook.