This should be a teachable moment to everyone in software dev as well: imagine it wasn't Facebook, but Microsoft (including Github) instead where everything goes down?
@SrEstegosaurio @codeberg @johannes We applied for a grant for federation, which will lessen the impact of outages.
@johannes yeah, it's time to move over to #mercurial! 😁
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Imagine they put it down on purpose. Say, a president commands to do so. 
@johannes and I would not be able to push a commit for 5 hours? 😱
@johannes On my own servers, as it already was.
@johannes that would have no impact on me either; I use neither.
pydoc, man, Know Your Offline Documentation, it's not just for airplane or train rides :)
It may be worth doing disaster drills where you try things like turning off the network or power and seeing what happens.
@johannes I was working today and missed the 'fun', but I do recall both goog and ms forgetting to renew domains in the past. I haven't learned yet what fb's problem was or if it still exists as I write this post, b/c I've never used it.
@johannes and the worst that could happen? A free day for a lot of people?
There are good reasons to leave these centralised places but uptime isn't one of them. What you can learn from this is what you'll read in a (hopefully public) postmodern about cause and resolution of the problem.
Just ask yourself the question, how many language package managers rely on Github in one form or another?