@blacklight@social.platypush.tech @humanetech@mastodon.social @ArneBab@rollenspiel.social They're the default choice due to marketing and the average user of those platforms not giving a shit about freedom, free software, or well-maintained software. #Github and #Gitlab are aiming for the people who don't even know how to clone a git repo without handholding, #Sourcehut seems to be interested in people who aren't afraid to read a manpage (which I think any competent developer should be doing). Personally, if you're intimidated by having to read text, I don't think you should be allowed on the public Internet.

As for accessibility, I already explained elsewhere in this thread that I think it does a better job here than the bloated alternatives, by virtue of the simple layout using existing tools that one can customize greatly, if so desired.

Discoverability I wouldn't know, I don't really go around looking for solutions to problems I don't have. I could say that's a bad mindset to have for a competent developer, it is the same reasoning people had for creating #blockchain technology after all, but I think there could be something positive to have better discoverability, if it is indeed bad right now.

The development flow is one that has existed for decades, and has proven to work for exceptionally large scale codebases. You may not be used to it, due to having been catered to by a more child-like approach through Github and Gitlab, but that's nothing more than baby-duck-syndrome. You can grow past that, and doing so would make you a much better person than demanding things change for the worse, just because that's what you're used to.