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We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

217 points · 201 comments · geoffbp

  1. Animats · · focus · HN ↗
    We want to have less, not more, dependence on Cloudflare.

    Single point of failure, for both technical and political failures.

    1. ivanjermakov · · focus · HN ↗
      Cloudflare wants all dependence on Cloudflare they can get.
      1. bartread · · focus · HN ↗
        I agree with both you and the person you’re responding to.
        1. iugtmkbdfil834 · · focus · HN ↗
          Same, but the real question is how. At this point, the things they are proposing are genuinely useful for the environment that we are finding ourselves in? How does one even begin to allow for less dependency here without appropriate substitute/mitigation for what cloudflare renders relatively painless.
          1. txrx0000 · · focus · HN ↗
            Consider Nostr ngit. There will eventually be decentralized alternatives for GitHub that are better than GitHub, but not for a while. ngit is about the best we can do for now. And to truly get rid of civilization-scale cancers such as Cloudflare, we have to shrink the fab (i.e. put the equivalent of ASML, TSMC, and Shenzhen into a single box and sell it as a home appliance), because the root problem is hardware manufacturing, as explained here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49690354">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49690354
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