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by keybored 811 days ago
Yeah, the thing about us programmers is that we can build whatever stuff which is incompatible with the fundamental tool (centralized things vs. git(1)) on top of the tool and then complain that the tool has become useless. So it’s true that if you insist on having so much centralization that you become impotent once GitHub goes down, then yeah decentralization isn’t work for you—because you went out of your way to make it useless.