There's a discussion thread on the GitHub community discussion full of people saying this is the best feature on GitHub today.
It's a shame GitHub never promoted it. At one point they even disabled it for existing users, and since then it's only been available to users who happen to find it under "Feature Preview".
We recently had customers come to us for the same reason. They all use aliasing with us. This allows you to redirect mail from any address you own to a real mailbox in Mango Mail.
Reminds me of when it seemed like a reasonable thing to do to host a website on the world wide web from my home network.
The web was always decentralised, but various motivations and reasonable tradeoffs caused it accumulate a lot of crap. Maybe the point is that Web3 isn't really different in this respect.
Humanity as a whole is qualitatively different than anything else I can think of. I think this is obvious.
But how different are humans? If you take a homo sapien in isolation and a chimpanzee in isolation (I know there's no such thing but for the sake of argument), how much difference is there really? Biologically it's not much. Even neurologically, we've basically got the same hardware with a bit more bandwidth for sensory processing, and a bit more processing power for higher order functions like planning and analysis.
The archeological record would seem to indicate that it took many tens of thousands of years for these minor fundamental differences to develop into something obviously qualitative. Whether you call these fundamental differences qualitative or quantitive to start with seems like a pretty subtle difference of perspective.
It's a shame GitHub never promoted it. At one point they even disabled it for existing users, and since then it's only been available to users who happen to find it under "Feature Preview".
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/166528