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Re:GitHub Down by parliament32 on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @04:21PM (#45972276)
All of those sound achievable by email, which, coincidently, is also decentralized.
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Re:GitHub Down by Aurornis on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @04:33PM (#45972426)
Some of my open source work is done on mailing lists through e-mail

It's more work and slower. I'm convinced half of the reason they keep it that way is because the barrier to entry is higher and it scares contributors away.

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Re:GitHub Down by octoberfranklin on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:06PM (#45975039)
Well it does prevent brigading.
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Re:GitHub Down by awesome_dude on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @04:41PM (#45972560)
Wait, email is decentralised?

You mean, assuming everyone in the conversation is using different email providers. (ie. Not the company wide one, and not gmail... I think that covers 90% of all email accounts in the company...)

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Re:GitHub Down by drykjdryj on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:37PM (#45975238)
Email at a company is very not decentralized. Most use Microsoft 365, also hosted in azure, i.e. the same cloud as github is trying to host its stuff in.
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Re:GitHub Down by parliament32 on Thursday November 20, 2025 @12:33PM (#45995231)
365 is not hosted in Azure. Some of the admin portals and workflows are, but the normal-employee-facing applications and APIs have their own datacenters.
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