What GitHub is doing to open-source maintainers is unethical — and our project is this week's proof.
Issues and PRs are community property. Contributors wrote those bug reports, reviews, and discussions — and one unreviewed algorithm decision made all of it inaccessible even through API, indefinitely. For an active project, that's not moderation; that's silently strangling development.
Here's what happened to us. ngx-l402 — an MIT-licensed nginx module for Lightning L402 API paywalls, self-hosted, non-custodial, 53 stars, 21 releases, active contributors — was auto-flagged five days ago. No human has reviewed it. Since then:
- The repo is hidden from every user on earth
- 17 open issues & PRs frozen — the API returns an empty list to the project owner
- Repository transfers blocked — my own code, and I cannot move it
- Docs, CI, container images — dark
A Lightning project, flagged for publishing software, on the platform that markets itself as the home of open source. Draw your own conclusions.
We drew ours. Everything now lives where no algorithm can take it: 📂 Code — Nostr/ngit: https://gitworkshop.dev/npub1qnw27f2jsqvn05wzpd56m7ykgmepk57p0yrzw8fzc7lfhjkmjmqqmd9r6h/relay.ngit.dev/ngx-l402 📦 Release — Blossom, hash-verifiable: https://nostr.download/03b6473139813e3c06361da15803a61e4c9f86111413a2467227825ed72b093d.gz 🔜 Website — nsite, next
Your project is one false positive away from this. Mirror it somewhere sovereign today.
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7/8/2026, 2 engagements