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>Can you, if they've decided to lock you out of your account?
ability to locking you out of an issue tracker like a petty troll != control over the existence of your project

> don't reuse a namespace associated with someone else
Who thinks they own a namespace under github.com domain? Is that what we are arguing about now? And what exactly is your case for this undelete thing specifically? "I wanted to break all my existing users like another petty troll, but I don't get to do that now, and instead have to allow them to migrate at their own pace"?

> I can talk with you regardless of where the mastodon servers are hosted, which DNS we use or who runs your email.
Simply no. If the admin or the hosting provider decides to nuke this instance good luck finding me to talk to. If the domain owner gives it up, then whoever gets it can host whatever they want under it. My email provider can permanently lock me out of my account here, if I happen to forget the password, and otherwise render my account unmanageable long term. My DNS server can redirect to a mirror of my instance that would simply not federate any of my posts. If you do not recognize the difference between the possibility of something happening vs it actually happening, then the only solution to your problems would be a fully decentralized p2p network.

> I cannot report an issue or submit a patch if all a project provides by way of “collaboration” is a stupid Github URL.
why exactly?