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by danbolt 1961 days ago
> it's a fallacy to say the entire field of software development didn't move forward until it existed

I mean, like, it kinda did in some ways? I feel like GitHub's semi-centralized web UI and pull requests empowered a lot of people to engage in software development online that wouldn't otherwise. I think if it didn't, we wouldn't see value in GitLab and Gittea providing GitHub's accessibility in a more decentralized way.