[qbasic_forever]

Read-up on the history of git. It was not designed to be a new panacea of OSS development. It was designed to keep the Linux kernel development running smoothly after their commercial source code host dropped them--that's it.

Running a git server is actually very easy, just run the git-daemon command: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Git-Daemon This is actually easier than running something like Gitlab that requires setting up a database, a reverse proxy, or even an entire runtime environment like Kubernetes, etc.

You're falling into a trap of conflating git with Github. Github took the mechanics of git and built a slick, centralized, commercial source code host on top of it. They made a social network that engaged users and gamified writing code. Lots of folks are working on similar commercial and open source variations of the same. But in all those cases git is just a part of the tech and not tightly coupled to the success (or failure) of them.

[tootie]

That reminds me that it's been years since I bothered moaning that the industry chose git over mercurial.