[lifeisstillgood]

>>> Are you saying instead of having Github, we should all be hosting our own Git repos?

Well, yes. That's the point. It was designed as an entirely distributed setup. It's crazy that in order to post a message to my neighbours I have to send data to Facebook in SV and just as crazy that two devs on the same team need to write their code commits in a load balanced mega server in ... Err ... Washington? Wherever.

And I don't mind having lots of clients but I object to no open standards, incompatible and frequently unavailable APIs and lack of control over my messages and how they are dealt with. I want procmail for messaging platforms ! And I want a pony !

[josegonzalez]

No one is forcing you to use github or facebook. I host my own gitlab installation for certain private repositories and I still send emails to some people when coordinating outings.

[lifeisstillgood]

I Am not feeling forced to use it. I use it because it is easier for me as an individual developer. I use readthedocs because they have better uptime than my own servers.n All the reasons i use GitHub are good choices for me.

I get the economics of centralised vs decentralised service provision - it's just ironic that GitHub is facing load balancing problems precisely because they have taken a distributed technology and made it, de facto, a centralised technology.

We can imagine a perfect storm of GitHub going down just as someone pulls a vital package from npm and Google losing jquery CDN; all Of a sudden the web will stop working.

It's amazing how fragile we can make a system designed to be resilient - I presume there is a real cost with keeping things distributed that a good economist could explain to me