Even ignoring any possible trust issues with Microsoft's ownership of Github, I think the tech world's reliance on a single host is rather dangerous. For instan

Even ignoring any possible trust issues with Microsoft's ownership of Github, I think the tech world's reliance on a single host is rather dangerous. For instance, there's a story from today about the Spanish gov't ordering Github to remove a repo[1]. And there were technical issues for Chef when someone removed their code in protest of ICE[2]. Git can be decentralized, and that's one of the good things about it, but we the community (myself included) are not decentralizing very much. Github isn't really to blame, since they made a pretty great host and made so many things easy to do with it. It's in their best interest to get every using it. But it's not necessarily in the community's best interest to be relying on it to the extent that we do, to the extent where people deduct mental points for non-Github projects. I say this having done such mental deductions myself in the past, but now I think alternatives to Github are necessary and should be celebrated. Don't necessarily stop using Github, but if you keep using Github, mirror the code to at least one more host, be it Gitlab or elsewhere. Or maybe it's just inevitable that what was once distributed always becomes centralized again? (To that end I'm reminded of the book The Master Switch by Tim Wu. He discusses similar cycles happening to various "information empires".) [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21395629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21395629 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21025037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21025037