| ▲ | rbanffy an hour ago | |
> are relatively easy to host yourself. The value these centralized services provide is the centralization itself - that makes things easy to find. Remember the web before Altavista? Finding anything was detective work, guessing domains, following links through multiple pages, digging in newsgroups, asking around, and so on. Open source was successful, but not nearly at the same level it is now thanks to precisely platforms such as GitHub (and Launchpad, and Bitbucket, and Gitlab, etc) that added useful functionality such as bug trackers and project management on top of a version control system. Now, if we could do something like GitHub on top of a network such as Mastodon, then we would have something that's centralized enough to be useful and distributed enough to be indestructible. | ||
| ▲ | usrbinbash an hour ago | parent [-] | |
> Finding anything was detective work And in recent years, how is the centralized world of websearch doing? https://www.techspot.com/news/101560-study-confirms-search-r... > Open source was successful, but not nearly at the same level it is now thanks to precisely platforms such as GitHub (and Launchpad, and Bitbucket, and Gitlab, etc) that added useful functionality such as bug trackers and project management on top of a version control system. None of that depends on a centralized provider. I have all the features you listed on my self-hosted platform as well. | ||