It isn't a resource that Github controls, it's a resource that the user timeshares to Github. It isn't like steel or oil or fiberoptic cable, where it's infeasible for a new entrant without Github's resources to compete for user attention without insurmountable effort.

OP could have spent their blog post informing users that the project would be hosted elsewhere, rather than going on a rant comparing Github to the Nazis, and that precious user visibility wouldn't have kept their userbase from moving elsewhere.

Oh wait, they did, at the end of their post. So... why are we even here then?

>But if you want to talk to your grandparents, you need to use Facebook.

Or skype, or email, or text or call them or maybe just visit once it a while.

Facebook doesn't have nearly the degree of monopoly on general human communication or mass communication that HN argues it does, neither does Twitter. If Trump weren't addicted to posting there, no one would care about Twitter.