It's clear, though, that there are aspects of 'distributed' that Git does not accomplish. This gives you a global namespace and a global identity, just like a website, without a single point of failure or a corporate interest, and with a closed source system and a trivial option for forking the whole structure into your own [friend group|company|private cluster|etc].

An argument could be made that git ought to be augmented with something like this: why run distributed protocol A on distributed protocol B; maybe we should just run distributed protocol AB from the get-go?