Only reason I use Bitbucket is because of Mercurial. I guess that's what you get for using centralized services. The funny thing is that both Git and Mercurial

Only reason I use Bitbucket is because of Mercurial. I guess that's what you get for using centralized services. The funny thing is that both Git and Mercurial was designed to be decentralized! But we humans are social creatures, and Github is like Facebook for invert's - instead of posting pictures of your acquaintance you post your software projects. Stars are the likes ... So in order to fully decentralize, the human/social bit also need to be decentralized. But there is also the convenience, while setting up Git and Mercurial hosted repositories is straightforward, I can understand why dev's choose to use a service instead, especially when it's free.