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not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:

[...]

> Quite mysteriously, all sorts of otherwise respectable open-source
> software developers are happy to use GitHub even though it's owned
> by M$. So even having ditched their software long ago, M$ are now
> very hard to avoid online if, ironically, you want to use, and
> especially work on, open-source software. I find that truely
> unfathomable, but others barely seem to see my problem with it.

That's well pointed out.  And there are alternatives such as hosting
your own Forgejo.  Moving a git repository is easy.  And you can even
put a link on your old git repository saying---we're here now.

tallman has been saying it for decades: people prefer convenience.