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Re:Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”? by sneak on Friday December 09, 2022 @02:29AM (#33918643)
Not really. Your GitHub account doesn't belong to you: it belongs to Microsoft. They let you use it as long as it pleases them, but it's their database and their servers and they don't have any obligation to continue to do so.

Use Gitea instead. It's great and doesn't add eyeballs to this giant corporate SPOF. It even has a feature to push everything in your repo to a remote (eg GitHub) as a mirror automatically. (Or set up a repo as an automatically pulled mirror for the inverse.)

Re:Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”? by nix23 on Friday December 09, 2022 @04:24AM (#33919356)
In Europe the account is not yours but the attached/coupled data (from email to code), since your are banned you also cant delete it, that is a legal problem...at least in europe.
Re:Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”? by BlueTemplar on Friday December 09, 2022 @08:58AM (#33921256)
A bigger legal problem here is that, being a US company asking for personal data, GitHub/Microsoft is effectively illegal in EUrope :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems#Schrems_I

Re:Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”? by chii on Friday December 09, 2022 @02:59AM (#33918835)
Using gitea doesn't work if you are doing things for some existing repo in github, esp. if it's non-git related such as reviewing PR, issues, etc.
Re:Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”? by sneak on Friday December 09, 2022 @03:27AM (#33918982)
If you put .patch on the end of any GitHub commit URL you get a diff format patch and it usually has the committer's email the top. You can then email them your diff.

It's not perfect and it's not social/collaborative but it gets the job done in the absence of a mailing list.

Re:Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”? by carstenhag on Friday December 09, 2022 @03:21AM (#33918947)
Laws are different in the world. I'm pretty sure in Germany the account would have to be restored.