@yawaramin, @lindig you talk about popularity. I about dependency. Fostering isn’t just letting graze.
With due respect of your noble intentions, it really troubles me, to see multi-billion dollar monopolies gnaw away from individuals. In this case Microsoft from Drew. With your rather forceful assistence. Drew is an entity, I, as another individual, can relate to. github is just a huge pile of some billion dollars. Those don’t care about anything but more of them. I’m careful not to rely on such. So is youtube-dl and e.g. people from Iran, I guess.
That aside, I think it’s abusive to scare people about hosting. Kindly asking them to mirror is ok, asking to move is embarrassing. Issues and PRs may occur wherever they do. Especially with small projects no deal, is it?
And let me add a personal thing: One reason why OCaml is appealing to me, is that it’s (mostly) GAFAM-free, as I understand it. Why should I use OCaml? - #6 by mro