@0leil I come from the time when version control was an esoteric topic at first, tarballs and patches ruled. Then I started using CVS and along came Sourceforge, which many projects used. That was what git and GitHub are now, more or less. So yes, better tools, but still the same (centralised) setup. Forgejo/Codeberg are working on integrating ActivityPub by using #ForgeFed [1] and I have high hopes that that will introduce truly better ways and real progress.

[1] https://forgefed.org