git was never really decentralized though. The whole system is aggressively a funnel towards central repositories, it's just that because it deals in whole repo

git was never really decentralized though. The whole system is aggressively a funnel towards central repositories, it's just that because it deals in whole repos, every git repo has the potential to be promoted to that role. Nothing is built into git to let it actually run decentralized: there's no server or protocol where someone can register say, an identifying public key and then just have a network of peers all communicate updates to each other. It's even pretty damn unsafe to just run a repo through basic file-sync (I do this for myself with syncthing with bare repos in a special folder, which seems to work fine but I'm hardly loading it up to chase down why it doesn't).