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I would argue GitHub does a lot more centralization than just those two. It's an entire developer platform centered around Git. It does hundreds of other things
by chris_money202 5mo ago
I would argue GitHub does a lot more centralization than just those two. It's an entire developer platform centered around Git. It does hundreds of other things that some developers use, and some don't.
- SpaceNoodled 5mo agoGitHub really doesn't have hundreds of additional working features beyond git.
- chris_money202 5mo agoCollaboration, issue tracking, Actions (CI/CD), Codespaces, Security, AI, Identity, social, hosting. Those are like broad categories I can think of off top of my head too you could fit probably 10-15 "features" into each of those.
- IanCal 5mo agoLots of those aren't centralisation/decentralisation issues though - codespaces, actions, issue tracking, multiple users, all that is repo/org level.
- chris_money202 5mo agoGitHub is centralizing all those features. If GitHub was just for repo hosting, then you would need to link your repo to another platform to do CI, another platform for issue tracking relative to the code, etc.
- IanCal 5mo agoThey have those features but those aren’t decentralisation issues, as far as I’d understand the term, but those already can be done elsewhere right now. They’re purely tied to one repo really, it’s only the user accounts that I can see being more of a cross repo concern. And global search but I don’t feel like that even really works.