Comment on is it just me or GitHub is turning into some sort of LinkedIn

• shagie@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If the open source project is managed with local repos and patches are sent via email for consideration and integration, one doesn’t need to register remotes for each individual’s instance of the repo for each project.

  With a bit of adjustment to the “how this works” for the workflow (rather than relying upon GitHub or Gitlab or any other centralized repo), git shines as a distributed version control system that is enabled with git send-email and git am.

  The repo can be published to any of the hosting sites, but the workflow for changes, bug reporting, and discussion happens over email rather than via the implementation specific aspects of one hosting site or another.

  There won’t be the issue of “this repo got taken down from {host} because it was owned by someone logging in from a sanctioned country.”

  Yes, centralized hosting solutions make it easy to do these things… but the federated and distributed way to avoid them is hosting independence by managing the project through email.

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