The last thing I want to do is host it myself.

It's a single package, which handles everything, end to end. Even you can add it to auto-update list, and it upgrades when you're sleeping.

So you provide the system, it hosts itself.

You don't need to. You can just pay gitlab, codeberg, sourcehut...

github...

As an alternative to github... one of these is not like the others.

In any case... why github? What is so unique about it that you can't even consider other possibilities? I guess soon people will be non-ironically saying "no one ever got fired for hosting their code at Github" and turn a blind eye to perfectly usable, open alternatives who does not lock us in.

For what? Fear of taking responsibility for maintaining the basic tools for their job? If that is the case, you can always pay for other smaller, independent companies who can host at competitive rates.

Anyway, you do you. I'm tired of playing Cassandra, and I'm tired of seeing people giving in to convenience and general conformity.

Gitea is really nice, too. That's what I personally prefer to use.