At this point I’m very concerned about the open source industry relying so much on github. You have to remember that any project there can be swept away overnight because it doesn’t fit into the agenca of a large company, for example.

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    what OP is referring to is actually the “distributed” nature of git, where i.e. it’s easy to copy the entire history of an instance.

    Exactly. Isn’t decentralized itself since it’s not a platform but by being “indipendent” and not entangled with anything you can just copy it entirely and host it somewhere else.

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      Isn’t decentralized itself since it’s not a platform

      I think I see your definition of “decentralized” a little better now, if you only want to apply it to platforms.

      I think your definition may be too strict, and that “decentralized” and “distributed don’t have to be mutually exclusive, but eh, that’s just my take.