Hope this motivates a few more free software devs to move away to a free host, at least apart from GH mirrors for exposure.
IUUC importing this to GitLab would have taken ~½dozen clicks and saved the open issues, etc.?
IUUC importing this to GitLab would have taken ~½dozen clicks and saved the open issues, etc.?
They'll still take down a repo and block the user if it is hosted. And self hosting something isn't free, plus quite possibly puts more legal exposure on the team.
This isn't a problem with technologies or the platform. There fundamentally needs to be a narrowing of DMCA, a presumption of innocence rather than guilt, and penalties for issuing unjustified takedowns.
Re: your edits, yes, DMCA reform is also important, and quite arguably more so. But decentralizing from GitHub would still slow takedowns down, and have other benefits.