> When setting up your own server you need to buy a domain, deal with running the infrastructure, deal with and require others to setup new identifies.
No, you don’t. You can push even to a bare repo on disk. If you want to share over network, ssh access vis IP address is enough.
> Also GitHub is free - for you, for now. MS can change it at any point.
It‘s easy to move.
> It's also not accessible from a number of countries.
That’s not really GitHub‘s fault, though. Any business / person operating a seed would have to comply with the same laws as GitHub today.
In that case you lose discovery, since your IP is likely to change and with SSH you still need to deal with identities. And you still need to operate that host. That's worst of both worlds.
> It‘s easy to move.
If use a separate social presence - it's easy-ish. If all your links point to GitHub repo - there's work involved, depending on the scale of the project. And that's assuming you did not buy into any of the value-add projects on GitHub.
> Any business / person operating a seed would have to comply with the same laws as GitHub today.
Apart from seeds in those countries which you can choose whether you want to talk to or not. So even if it doesn't matter to you, it does solve people's problems.
No, you don’t. You can push even to a bare repo on disk. If you want to share over network, ssh access vis IP address is enough.
> Also GitHub is free - for you, for now. MS can change it at any point.
It‘s easy to move.
> It's also not accessible from a number of countries.
That’s not really GitHub‘s fault, though. Any business / person operating a seed would have to comply with the same laws as GitHub today.