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IMO Git is decentralization-ready but the rest of the infrastructure necessary to make it practical is not widely available/in use. The necessary peer-to-peer a
by catskul2 5y ago
IMO Git is decentralization-ready but the rest of the infrastructure necessary to make it practical is not widely available/in use. The necessary peer-to-peer and networks of trust are still not a solved problem, or if they are they've for some reason are not popular enough to be in wide use.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoIt's widely available and widely used, just not as widely used as github. Setting up your own git server is not hard, but it's not as easy as just getting github or gitlab to run it for you. Way too many people take the easier path, even though the harder path is not actually that hard. There are also multiple solutions.
- mr_toad 5y agoIt’s ok for small private projects, but user management is hard. You can’t just let any rando have commit privileges.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agothat's what things like gitlab (not the website) or gitea are actually for.
- catskul2 5y ago> Setting up your own git server is not hard Bullshit. Getting it set up in a secure and public way is an order of magnitude or two more difficult than it would need to be for mass use which is what we're talking about here. When you have a situation where a the vast majority of people find something too difficult, the problem (from the perspective of actually getting it happen) is not the people the problem is with the proposed solution. > There are also multiple solutions Multiple solutions does not generally make things easier/better even if it's desirable for other reasons.