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mechazawatoday at 8:11 AM8 repliesview on HN

More and more projects are moving to Codeberg, and I'm wondering; at what point will a critical mass be reached? Or will we end up with a fragmented ecosystem?


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hinkleytoday at 8:29 AM

Oh no, our decentralized VCS will be… decentralized!

Seriously though the big problem to solve will be squatters, when there are three logical places for a module to be hosted. That could create issues if you want to migrate.

I would rather have this happening after a contender to git has surfaced. Something for instance with more project tracking built in so migration were simpler.

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pan69today at 8:21 AM

> fragmented ecosystem

This sounds a bit like an oxymoron. More diversity will only help the ecosystem IMHO.

xeonmctoday at 8:21 AM

You say fragmented I say decentralized.

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JoshTripletttoday at 8:49 AM

Hopefully one of the efforts to build distributed pull requests will take off, so that all the forges other than github can band together and interoperate.

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flohofwoetoday at 9:11 AM

All those different 'git forges' use git as version control system and the same issue and PR workflows. There is no fragmentation, unless you consider one git url being different from another git url 'fragmentation' ;)

sdqalitoday at 8:28 AM

The D in DVCS working as expected.

irusenseitoday at 11:10 AM

Git itself comes out as a very decentralized tool to me.

Zardoz84today at 8:21 AM

I prefer a pletora of code hosting sites, that one massive hub controlled by a single one. We can see how bad is when there is a monopoly or cuasi-monopoly.