even better, selfhost your own gitea instance

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How do other people open pull/merge requests for your projects?

Honest question: do you want them to? Most of us aren't running high-profile OSS projects, and drive-by PRs are a pretty widespread complaint about GitHub's model of opensource

Just push to that instance, or, as Linus intended, send patches via e-mail.

They make an account or you give them one?