This is interesting.

I don’t understand why commits need to be served over BitTorrent. I guess it would make the data more available.

It seems like the real missing decentralized piece of GitHub is discovery, an index, and content like issues being stored outside of git.

The last point, issues, reputation, and other content being stored in centralized db, is the main centralization problem I see with GitHub. If all of this were stored in the git tree, it’d be trivial to move from host to host, or self host.

This is something I wanted to do with https://gitern.com.