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Comment by thruflo22

GitHub is a “social coding” platform that provides collaboration features (access control, issues, etc) on top of Git.

This is a social coding tool that provides collaboration features on top of Git.

It provides a desktop app because it’s peer to peer. That’s an advantage over a web UI for developers looking to avoid a dependency on a centralised third party.

You are free to continue to play in walled gardens but this is very much an alternative to that.

parent thruflo22 6 years ago

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