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The idea of GitHub is great, and frightning at the same time. The development community as a whole would be crippled if GitHub went under. Same thing with StackOverflow.

I'm still dreaming of a decentralized GitHub based on something like ipfs.



Well, local running copy GitLab (or something other GitHub-styled) with a couple of backups is pretty safe and still gives all the advantages of GitHub.

Decentralized GitHub is a nice idea. We gotta implement this)




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