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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You missed the point of my example entirely. How can those commits exist, and those people exist in that instance if they don't have accounts? I was refuting your statement that a frontend needs an account. By mirroring an existing repo, as an example, you could verify that my claim is correct. Git as platform is already decentralized and doesn't require accounts. You could email someone your git diff's and it will function the same.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I feared as much, because the same could be said about your comment above.

I already mentioned git send-email in my comment. But the ux of that is terrible. So if you want good UX you're in account hell, having to create a new profile for every hosting site.

You can have a nice, terms of service free but read only forge, or you have terms of service and account bullshit or you can have the dev experience of git send email. Choose one of the three and until we have federation they are all terrible in some aspect.