> GitHub takes git and basically turns it back into subversion and co. Instead of all that anarchic "no repo is king" long haired hippie nonsense, you want central control 8) I do too but only within my company, so we use gitea (other git control freak enablement platforms are available).

I don't know how you got to this. GitHub was designed fundamentally for the decentralized world. That's why forking is so easy, it was designed so that everyone can fork a repo and merge between themselves.

That's why GitHub has the vulnerability where if you have a private fork of a public repo, all of your commits are also public (because the internals was designed for an open social coding world)