Ted Mielczarek@mcc@mastodon.social I wish we would have figured out a workable self-hosting solution—or even better an actually-distributed VCS—instead of everyone just switching to The Next Popular Platform so we could have it happen all over again.
mcc@tedmielczarek@mastodon.social As far as I am concerned self-hosting and code backup are mutually exclusive goals
Ted Mielczarek@mcc@mastodon.social yeah that's fair. I guess "actually distributed" would be nice, although you'd need some way of actually ensuring replication. Maybe the right goal here would be "all of the project details exist in the repository alongside the code"? It's easy enough to publish a git repository to some other host, but the issues/pull requests/etc are much harder.
mcc@tedmielczarek@mastodon.social In general the story of the last 20 years in net tech is
- P2P tech arises, shows several powerful proofs of concept, is ready to be applied to virtually everything
- CDNs ("cloud providers") arise, are very cheap, so cheap there's no reason to investigate P2P
- Enough time passes for everyone to forget how to function without cloud providers
- Cloud providers enshittify intensely and rapidly, enter into a state you would have never chosen, but now P2P knowhow is mostly lost