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I personally self host git and think that email gives a bunch of advantages:

1. Email has clients with full offline support. Sometimes I work in locations where internet is bad to nonexistent and with github I am limited in what I can do.

2. Anyone can contribute to my repos without needing to sign up to my website. Git with email truly allows decentralization of “forges”. So in the same vain, I can contribute with the same client to any project on the web that accepts email patches and it’s the same workflow for all of them.

3. Since I have an email client for my email, I can set up my own custom workflow that is much faster. Github siloes you into a begrudgingly slow one. My email client integrates into my editor and gives me the same keyboard shortcuts I use to navigate my code.

4. Did I mention it removes centralization? Having github be the center for all repos makes it ripe for enshittification. Given Microsoft’s history for EEE, I don’t trust them one bit.