Lots of major free software projects are hosted by the project creators to avoid being screwed over by proprietary services.
Examples
If Microsoft were to release a competing link aggregator; then they could persuade GitHub (Microsoft’s subsidiary) into locking or removing the main repository for Lemmy’s source code.
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I believe the devs host their code on multiple repositories including Codeberg.
Yep, we have 3 code mirrors.
I’d happily push for moving our issue tracking off github once a federated alternative becomes stable.