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0 pointseternityforest2y ago0 comments

GitHub is the one everyone else uses though, which means you can have everything in one place, so they have the advantage.

There are others that are almost as good, I suppose what I should have said is "Can we make something better than GitHub for the hypothetical better non-git VCS", since without that it's hard to imagine using anything but Git.

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Aachen2y ago

Pretty sure alternative git services are still larger than alternative source control systems, yet OP is asking about alternatives to git which will be even smaller. The whole point is that the person wants to use something else. If your argument is that Microsoft GitHub is the largest and therefore the best, it's circular reasoning and will forever remain that way.

We should all stay on Facebook also if they're the best because everyone's on Facebook and the network effect has benefits; somehow it seems people have more sense than that and we can actually switch to smaller services which are more aligned with what we want

eternityforestOP2y ago

Close to everyone I know is still on Facebook, and I get the impression none of them have any interest in switching, so... I use it too, even though the algorithmic curation stuff is really bad.

I could imagine people switching if someone made another site with some kind of killer app and promoted it with a million dollars of ads, but... At the moment, the only feature the alternatives focus on is usually privacy, which is clearly not enough to make average people switch.

Network effects aren't the only factor that matters, just a really big one for most.

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