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Luckily, Git is decentralized, so that shouldn't be an issue.

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I guess you don't use GitHub Actions or a CI build workflow ...

Exactly my point.

Sarcasm doesn't work on the internet - there's no way to read your tone.

More like it doesn't work on the internet with a general audience, because some people will need you to say something in a funny voice to know not to believe it.

In this instance I’d say it’s rather a question of how naive/innocent you think the poster must be for it to not be sarcasm.

It also doesn't work very well as "making a point" sarcastically, because that largely depends on pretending github only does git, and there's very little reason to do that.

The point being made is that we lose the decentralization benefits of Git if we tie ourselves to the proprietary functionality of centralized platforms, as the current event demonstrates. Obviously Git being decentralized doesn’t help much when GitHub is down. But why is that so? Because of GitHub’s proprietary centralized features. The comment was intended as food for thought that maybe we as an industry shouldn’t tie us so much to those features then.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if when GitHub is down we could just move to a different GitHub instance? Isn’t it sad that we can’t, although it would be very feasible technologically?

But we're not losing the benefits of Git. We still have those. We're 'losing' the benefits of decentralized build servers, but we never had those to begin with.

This is a problem to work on, but it's not a Git problem.

I feel like we kinda do this already it’s just that both servers are owned by GitHub and you can’t tell that it’s happening.

Actually it works pretty well outside of HN.

> Sarcasm doesn't work on the internet

Ain't it cloud scale? Have you tried moving it to serverless?

Yeah. We also need to discourage this 'centralize everything' [0] nonsense and going all in on GitHub services as well.

At this point, it seems that GitHub is even more unreliable than a self-hosted solution.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

Tell that to people who deploy from Github.

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