[Cyberdog]

> your remote GitHub repo can be located on any machine with an ssh connection

Technically true, but GitHub provides so many more tools that it's almost silly to do so. Aside from the "hub" in GitHub such that it is often the first and only way that some people will look for projects they're interested in, you also get the nice web interface for quick code browsing, issue queues, the ability to add and remove people with a simple GUI rather than SSH key management, wikis, email notifications, and so on and so on.

Some of this can be mitigated by using a self-hosted web-based Git tool like GitLab, Gitea, Phorge, etc. But you still lose the "everyone uses it because everyone uses it" factor of GitHub on top of whatever GitHub features the clones may lack.