[piedar]

> one designated "origin" remote

Git is not limited to a single remote. The default remote is called "origin" but there's nothing particularly special about it.

[juped]

To be more precise, git clone adds the origin cloned from as a remote named "origin", unless you override this with a configuration setting or the -o option.

The default is no remotes at all.

[creshal]

But git gives you nothing to handle more complicated topologies, all remotes you interact with have to result in a linear history with everything on all other remotes… unless you feel like doing a manual merge every time you update your social media feed. Making that work automagically needs another layer on top of git, none of which seems documented here.