curious: why use own hosting rather than github?

[Nicolai Dagestad]

> This is true, but at the same time, this is 'yet another method to
> learn', while nowadays a vast group of users are quite proficient and
> used to github and similar. Using something a la github would take
> away some entry barrier for most user IMO.

Yes, but github is prorietary, and for me at least, using the worflow 
they invented, wich is not compatible with decentralized repos, is almost 
as bad as using their platform. (Technically pull-requests could be made 
possible between different self-hosted github like instances like gitea, gitlab
and so forth, but it isn't now)