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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again by catskul2 on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:17PM (#29364121)
IMO Git is decentralization-ready but the rest of the infrastructure necessary to make it practical is not widely available/in use. The necessary peer-to-peer and networks of trust are still not a solved problem, or if they are they've for some reason are not popular enough to be in wide use.
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:43PM (#29364345)
It's widely available and widely used, just not as widely used as github.

Setting up your own git server is not hard, but it's not as easy as just getting github or gitlab to run it for you. Way too many people take the easier path, even though the harder path is not actually that hard.

There are also multiple solutions.

Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again by catskul2 on Monday November 29, 2021 @11:58AM (#29382125)
> Setting up your own git server is not hard

Bullshit. Getting it set up in a secure and public way is an order of magnitude or two more difficult than it would need to be for mass use which is what we're talking about here.

When you have a situation where a the vast majority of people find something too difficult, the problem (from the perspective of actually getting it happen) is not the people the problem is with the proposed solution.

> There are also multiple solutions

Multiple solutions does not generally make things easier/better even if it's desirable for other reasons.

Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again by mr_toad on Saturday November 27, 2021 @07:21PM (#29364984)
It’s ok for small private projects, but user management is hard. You can’t just let any rando have commit privileges.
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday November 28, 2021 @01:25AM (#29366668)
that's what things like gitlab (not the website) or gitea are actually for.