My first rant here is about the absence of sign-up with Facebook or Google or GitHub here :/

Honestly, it's not that big of a deal. If you can't take 2 minutes to type the info in, then that's just sad. Like my God you've got an email already, you know a password. Just type the shit in. It's one thing if it took forever to sign up, but there's nothing complex to it.

Welcome to devRant though.

Why? Linking services makes it easier to link accounts to people. Most people here don't want to be recognized anywhere.

Anonymity and privacy is the order of the day here, and data hoarders like FB and Google aren't really liked.
Though, I don't think a login should be much of an issue with all that, actually (please correct me if I'm wrong). Maybe @dfox wanted to keep things simple? He and trogus are the only people working on devRant.

@Floydian If they'd come with fb/google login buttons/abilities, I'd genuinely consider leaving here.

As petty as it sounds, implementing a Facebook or Google platform login would be my cue to walk away from devrant. There's a right time and place, and this is not it.

@Floydian Right. The business models of those two companies (fb/google) exists of selling user data. Next to that, both companies are integrated within the biggest mass (dragnet) surveillance program ever created. When a site/service integrates those buttons/abilities, they pretty much integrate their users into that mass surveillance network and that's an absolute no-go for me.

@Floydian True but that's just for sharing content and that's still manageable for me :) (although I don't like them by a long shot!)

@Floydian Locally I've got a pihole server now which entirely blocks out google/fb :)

@linuxxx I must thank you for letting us(i.e. me) know about pihole
I'm using it via my VPS, to great effect.