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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Git is already decentralized - every contributor has a copy of the repo on their own machine.
At that point, it's just about using what's most popular. I have a slight preference toward gitlab myself, but the prevalence of github means I still push most of my projects to there, just because I'm already visiting the website so often.
But it is still 1 centralized server that has the code and serves it to you. Its like to say "The internet is federated as i have copied some memes onto my pc"
No, that's not quite how git works. Everyone who's cloned the repo has a complete copy of the code — at least at the time they cloned/checked it out. If GitHub, Gitlab, BitBucket or whatever goes away, you can keep working without it, provided that people know how to use a remote from another machine. Git really is decentralized even if people tend to use it in a centralized fashion.
Edit: Spelling.
I agree with both of you (not sure why the one got so many downvotes).
Git is not centralized. GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Gitea, is a centralized server.
These services are more than just git repositories. They're issue tracking, merge/pull requests, wikis, CI/CD, etc. If the service is lost, the source is still out there but it could be quite the pain to get going again.