Why don't you have the program download the entire text to save locally and then fetch the local files?
Introduction
I’ve written quite a lot of free software in my life. Most of it was from scratch: projects I started myself. So I get to choose where to host them – or rather, I have to choose where to host them.
These days, all my projects are held in Git. And mostly, I put them in ‘bare’ git repositories on my personal website.
I don’t use any git ‘forge’ system layered on top of Git, like Gitlab or Github, which automatically makes a bug tracking database for each project, and provides a convenient button for a user to open a merge request / pull request. I just use plain Git. People can ‘git clone’ my code, and there’s a web-based browsing interface (the basic gitweb) for looking around without having to clone it at all. But that’s all the automated facilities you get.
Occasionally this confuses people, so I thought I should write something about it.
Discussion with the author @ https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/114111520633445984
That's not an affiliate link that's an anonymous tracking link.
These suggestions are essentially the same as other privacy and libre focused recommendations.
I'm talking about posting on their website a link to alternative social media accounts.
You're right. I got lazy.
I'd make a blind bet on that over Matrix for suitability.
In that case we could all just use email.
That doesn't explain why they don't start a transition by posting to both the new platform and the old. And not including links to their new account on their websites.
This seems too black and white a prognosis. I think it's not a popular method of funding development because the sponsorship/patronage method seems like it already does a better job of providing stability without making a transactional relationship.