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by tmikaeld 3788 days ago
Don't get me wrong here, I host a Gitlab server myself and pull other projects into that instead of relying on Github, I'm just saying that it IS a problem that Github is so central at the moment and it will have consequences if it goes down or start to charge for FOSS.

Of course Open Source have been around and will continue to be around, I'm talking about those FOSS projects that have only a single or a few developers with no company backing it. It takes effort and time to even share a project and if it is not easy and free - some might not consider open sourcing their projects at all.

I'm looking forward to a new P2P layer that works like the web, but is more transparent and encrypted. Perhaps using tech like WebRTC? Webtorrent that is built on it is already impressive - The only issue is that it loads the whole file in RAM for both seeders and leechers.

One especially interesting project is: https://matrix.org/blog/home/