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There are so many private hosting options for forges at this point that I don't buy the Github excuse anymore. Anyone who actually cares about decentralization
by jeroenhd 2y ago
There are so many private hosting options for forges at this point that I don't buy the Github excuse anymore. Anyone who actually cares about decentralization can set up a Gitea/Gitlab server (or one of their forks) or use one of the many public alternative code forges. It's also quite common for projects to have read-only copies of their code on Github, where people can easily find them, with links to their real upstream in the README.
These days, Git forges left and right are even working on decentralizing things like issues and comments, something Git doesn't track or care about.
People flock to Github because it's free and easy. Very few people care about the peer-to-peer internet and decentralization that Git was built for.