If an app is open source why does it matter who controls it?

If an app is in Git, then you have a fully copy locally, so why does it matter who hosts it?

Git is and was absolutely decentralised by nature. Everyone can have their competely independent copy of the copy and can send diffs/patches as emails, text files, whatever.

There’s no concept of a central server in Git. GitHub is not the center of git. There is no Center.

Then because most young devs couldn’t properly understand git and we’re too lazy to learn, you all adopted a pattern called “rebasing” which has now become gits default. It plays into the idea that GitHub is the single source of truth when it need not be.

Anyway there’s an off topic git rant for you.

I don’t think so