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Why? "Because everybody else does" is the most common excuse. Microsoft could be physically rawdogging people's fathers and it wouldn't matter. Belong to the "in" crowd is what matters for most people. Can't forget "idgaf" either.
You could be the most hard-left, anti-capitalist, anarchist person on the planet and still host your project on Github. In fact there are such people on Github.
Until an alternative becomes popular, early adopters of forgejo, sourcehut, radicle, and others have to proselytise their platforms. Things just don't change otherwise.
Anti Commercial-AI license
Yeah... Strangely enough, most GitHub project also use as communications media: Discord :/ ! ughh !!
Free with a large userbase. Pretty clear why that's the preference at the moment, as bad as it is.
It’s the same thing as other social media and why people stay on them