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I've never heard/seen it that way around before, but calling GitHub (or similar) features/sites 'git' all the time...

Docker too. ('a docker')

I'm surprised GitHub isn't trying to avoid their trademarked becoming generic [1].

If that keeps up you can just call your alternative repo storage system GitHub 2.0 or GitHub Enterprise or something.

My current company uses GitLab; anyone mistakenly referring to it as "Github" would get swiftly corrected, even as a simple proxy word for "Git".

I do that just to mess with people

How does it mess with people? Perhaps they just quietly assume you're not too bright?

I very loudly assume.

Was it a self hosted github instance?

Github != Git

You cant self host github.

That's what github enterprise is for

Im pretty sure thats a junior dev thing, no?

Indeed. Not different than many folks saying "internet" instead of "www".

That developer is mid level in title, but not in skill.