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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • There are some good examples for decentralization. E-Mail is the most obvious and biggest one. And Git itself is also one, because independent projects can be anywhere. But I genuinely understand why people want a centralized place, because it allows to easily search for things, make stats, have an overview on your stuff, etc. I feel like the only true possibility of an alternative is like such a place, a single project that is consistent everywhere and lets people have their entire work, so that it looks centralized, even if it’s not.




  • Actually, fair point. While the Anthropic judge case is awful for artists and such, it is actually a great thing for libraries and especially the internet archive, which has faced heavy pressure in the last years.
    It’s really ironic that the public good library that has been facing heavy pressure from giant corporations is now… being saved by other giant cooperations which are now deemed more important