Comment by talkingtab

This!!

It is trivial to set up a VPS with a git remote. Access it with ssh. Done. Git clone fred@fooda.com:/hubs/frog gets you hopping instantly.

I think the issue behind the curtain (attempt at an obscure reference to the wizard of oz) is lock in. And why is lock in such an issue all around us? Why is github so completely focused on lock in rather than service? Behind the curtain of lockin is funding. Paying for it. A business model.

Maybe centralization => lockin => money? Like gmail. Like github. Etc.

If you have no business model for service => money (and we do not!) then this is what you get.

[Edit: "funding" => "is funding"]