pro: for a huge number of people, being on github makes it easier to contribute

con: for another (almost certainly smaller) group of people, it makes it more difficult and potentially prevents them from contributing

it seems to me that the best course of action for many projects is to be on github but to also be elsewhere, and to explicitly accept issues and PRs in multiple places. it’s a mess, but it’s better than either being on github or not.

fwiw, I use github in some contexts, but, because it is a giant hassle to make a new account anonymously these days, I haven’t yet made one for this identity… so I sometimes irritate the lemmy devs by sending them bug reports on matrix instead of opening an issue :(

I had myself a question for the maintainers. I was planning to use the discussions and to do so, create an account :'( But it seem that Microsoft really doesn’t like Tor:

Once you have signed up with Github, and enable 2FA, it will be fine with Tor browser. No more nagging or errors.

I think the developers of privacy-respecting apps use big evil platforms to tell more people about their product. I don’t think any of us would be here if we didn’t see privacy content on YouTube, Reddit or another platform like that. Github is not great though. I mean, you can use it for promotion if you really want to but ehh that’s kinda weird. Maybe it wasn’t that bad when the project started and now it’s hard to move it to something else idk