Imagining Post-GitHub: Why Open Source Needs New Collaboration Models

GitHub's market dominance has shaped how developers fundamentally think about collaboration and version control, yet most alternatives simply replicate its design rather than questioning its assumptions. The open source community risks trading one monopoly for another unless projects actively explore and adopt diverse, decentralized hosting and workflow models. Truly escaping GitHub's influence requires not just switching platforms but reimagining how development communities can organize and collaborate.