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ckocagil on June 16, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitLab Web IDE

Decentralize for privacy and anti-censorship, centralize for convenience (collaboration, sharing, zero management, continue working where you left off on another device, ...)

amelius on June 16, 2018 [–]

Yeah, but we can have all the advantages you mentioned for a centralized system, while using a decentralized system.

Also, centralization is against the Unix philosophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

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