There are a lot of legitimate reasons to have a public github/gitlab/whatever account that is not self hosted.

Care to list some?

One of the biggest for me would be sharing the repo/working together without exposing my server/NAS to the public.

	▲	ivan_gammel 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There exist free plans of cloud-hosted Git repos for small teams.
	▲	system2 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If you need to share, you can simply rent a $3 host from Hetzner and handle it extremely privately.