i would like to remind everyone that open source existed and was strong long before github and the concept of pull requests. setting your repo to "pr from contributors only" will not "end open source" it will stop the ai bots (and idiots!) from wasting your time. at no point does the general public need a direct line to your version control. they never did, and never will need it.
source: people like me who are old. go ask your parents if they know what tarballs are.






