Shedding Bikes: Github's Favorite Joke. Why social networks in combination with code and geeks quickly become asocial networks. One reason why I also keep my distance from Github - I have an account there to set favorites and make bug reports, but I prefer to host my projects on Bitbucket. And even then, I'm very glad that Mercurial (as well as Git) as a distributed version system allows me to switch to other systems or switch to self-hosted sites (Rhodecode would be useful to install in the long run). Update: Github reacts and finally builds in blocking.