You can not call yourself a privacy project and rely on githubs good will!

I agree with that statement. It’s strange that some privacy-oriented projects are on Github, letting the user browse and downloading files from there via clearnet, letting Micro$oft track every IP/cookie and all.

That said, when “something bad” happens, it’s probably not as simple as that source code is banned. Like, they did attack Tornado Cash yet they didn’t ban source code (which is after all free speech).

If you’re planning to self-host it only for one year, perhaps you’d be survived by Github anyway. Though again, I do agree with you that Github is not certainly the best place to use.

Archive.org can resurrect github projects.

i.e. https://web.archive.org/web/20221115012936/https://codeload.github.com/monero-project/monero/zip/refs/heads/master

This idea has been discussed already in the gitmonero project https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/408#note_22516

Git is decentralised already

Just clone the monero repos to your PC and update your local copies with a git pull every now and then. With enough people doing so, the monero source will easily survive any hostilities from GH/M$/governments. If something happens, any of these git clones can used to "resurrect" a new main repository at a new host.

I am pretty sure most of the devs already have a local working copy of the repo on their PC.

So to be honest, I don't think your fundraiser is needed... but good luck anyway.

You're 100% right.

I still to this day don't know why we don't have a forum and a code hosting service at getmonero.org.