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Pretty cool that Linus Torvalds invented a completely distributed version control system and 20 years later we all use it to store our code in a single place.

I get what you're saying, but tbf hosting on github doesn't (yet!) box you out of just moving back to that system. It's still just git. It's still distributed, in the sense that if github goes down you could still generate patches and email them around, and then push back to github when it's back.

Everything surrounding code: issues, CICD, etc, is obviously another story. But it's not a story that is answered by distributed git either. (though I would love a good issue tracking system that is done entirely inside git)

> Everything surrounding code: issues, CICD, etc, is obviously another story

That's what Github is though, it's not about the code itself it's about all your project management being on Github, and once you move it, moving out isn't realistic.

And how are we suppose to solve this problem? By creating distributed versions of every possible component of every piece of software? Seems unrealistic. I think we should be grateful that the core underlying protocol for the most important data has the distributed properties we want. It's a lot more than we can say vs. lots of other platforms out there.