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Ask HN: Why are there no GitHub alternatives?
By hosting your OS projects on GitHub you get a lot of benefits. The main one is IMO the social aspect and a low barrier to participate in the project.
When you look at GitHub alternatives you find a lot of projects that a doing GitHub in a sightly worse way but nothing really compelling. They are all either centralized services or self-hosted solutions that miss most of what GitHub has to offer.
- diogenesjunior 6y agoThe only reasons I haven't left GitHub is because: 1 - I'd lose all my stars 2 - I like the UI 3 - Other Git hosts don't look nice and I feel weird using them. If GH was open source, we wouldn't be having these problems.