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The article mentions the students using GitHub to evade censorship. I think that might refer to https://terminus2049.github.io/

Terminus 端点星计划，是在 GitHub 开放平台搭建的一个站点，以去中心化的方式备份微信、微博等平台被删文章。

Terminus is a site set up on GitHub's open platform to back up posts deleted from WeChat, Weibo and other platforms by means of decentralization.

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That's an odd definition of decentralization.

Anyone with a copy of the repo can set up a mirror, so although they are using GitHub's centralized publishing platform, they are not dependent on it.

Git is one of the most widely used distributed protocols on the internet. GitHub is just one node on the graph... seems like a decent use/definition to me.

Distributed is not the same as decentralized. GitHub is centralized and distributed.

I'm not sure if GitHub fits the definition of distributed (unless you're talking about their load balancing setup, in which case - is that relevant?), but git is designed to be a decentralized store of information (specifically code, but not stricty) and optionally distributed.

Git, the protocol, is not the same as GitHub, the service. Git, the protocol, is absolutely distributed. And just to repeat my point - GitHub is only a single possible node in the graph

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