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Comment by aleph_minus_one | Hacker News Reader

> I used his media host/imgur alternative in the past, and it spontaneously just disappeared one day. I'd rather that not happen to my source code

Git is decentralized.

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Git is decentralized. Ticketing systems and mailing lists as found on SourceHut and many other forges aren’t.

And if SourceHut disappears, what would you do with the repository? You’d upload it to a new forge, but how would you tell users where to find it, how would the users know this is the original source and not a hostile fork? It’s better to pick a stable, trustworthy. and 21st-century place like GitHub or GitLab instead of SourceHut.

> It’s better to pick a stable, trustworthy. and 21st-century place like GitHub or GitLab instead of SourceHut.

It's better to not make yourself (much) dependent on functionalities that only the respective software forge provides.

What would you suggest instead? How would you replace pull requests, or even sending patches via email to mailing lists?

I'd don't really see a difference between sending an email to a list or to a maintainer. Maybe that's an argument for not adding and adapting to unnecessary concepts like a web based pull request.

What if there’s more than one maintainer? How do you build any sort of community without a place for discussion?

> How do you build any sort of community without a place for discussion?

There exist many ways for this. Why does this have to be the same provider (if you don't want to self-host this functionality) as the one that hosts the server for the VCS?

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