Why are there no GitHub alternatives?

Question

By hosting your OS projects on GitHub you get a lot of benefits. The main one is IMO the social aspect and a low barrier to participate in the project.When you look at GitHub alternatives you find a lot of projects that a doing GitHub in a sightly worse way but nothing really compelling. They are all either centralized services or self-hosted solutions that miss most of what GitHub has to offer.

diogenesjunior · Accepted Answer

The only reasons I haven't left GitHub is because:
1 - I'd lose all my stars
2 - I like the UI
3 - Other Git hosts don't look nice and I feel weird using them.
If GH was open source, we wouldn't be having these problems.

Why are there no GitHub alternatives?

The only reasons I haven't left GitHub is because:1 - I'd lose all my stars2 - I like the UI3 - Other Git hosts don't look nice and I feel weird using them.If GH was open source, we wouldn't be having these problems.

The only reasons I haven't left GitHub is because:
1 - I'd lose all my stars
2 - I like the UI
3 - Other Git hosts don't look nice and I feel weird using them.
If GH was open source, we wouldn't be having these problems.