Kyoto project is moving from GitHub to Sourcehut
Just had this thought: are there any decentralized code hosting services?To me, I don't really see a difference between GitHub and sr.ht. Companies can start out with these "friendly" attitudes towards FOSS, but when they reel in many paying customers, they can pretty easily, and without consequence, change their policies to be more aggressive (geared towards profit) and greedy. It just seems inevitable to me.However, decentralized hosting and governance might make it so that there can't be a hostile takeover and incorrect (relative to license) usage of FOSS code. I'm thinking something akin to IPFS but more specialized towards e.g git repository hosting.Not sure how such hosting would be feasible in terms of breaking even between hosting costs, but a decentralized service hosting distributed VCS databases seems more along the lines of the philosophy of DVCS's in general. DVCS's in general do not have timeliness requirements (i.e your "git push" most of the time doesn't have to propagate worldwide immediately) and the other goodies that come with being on GitHub (e.g CI/CD) seem orthogonal to the actual code hosting itself, and I don't see why that can't be built separately without being part of the service.