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Comment by black_puppydog | Hacker News Reader

Your weekly reminder that

1. You should not have your development process on a centralized platform, at least not if you're doing anything that smells of copyright issues

2. If you do host on a centralized platform, have regular, decentralized backups of code and issue tracking.

3. Also, avoid US-centric hosting for this kind of thing. But really, refer to 1.

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> at least not if you're doing anything that smells of copyright issues

Or lets people communicate. Or broadcasts news. Or can filter messages or news. Or directly applies encryption to anything. Or is related to accounting. Or can be indirectly linked to health services. Or, well, you get the idea.

Or in plainer terms: 1. You should not have your development process on a centralized platform, period.

I'm a contributor to gallery-dl and it occurs to me this exact same scenario can happen there. So I at least set up a cron job to backup the issues in case it gets trolled. Its the only really problematic part to get taken down from Github.

Thanks ... your tool seems to be the solution for my problem :D

I'm sure the developers have the whole thing on their local machines and it would be terrible if it was uploaded somewhere in a country that doesn't give a squat about DMCA.

Yes, I'm watching https://radicle.xyz/ with great anticipation.

Should we count country and government as 'centalized platform'?

there will never be a safe country. The robust option is to mirror them in hostile countries. Divide them and conquer

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