I am by no means an arbiter of what counts or does not. :-) That being said, whatever freedoms you can exercise is always a great thing! If you leverage github

I am by no means an arbiter of what counts or does not. :-) That being said, whatever freedoms you can exercise is always a great thing! If you leverage github underneath as a platform via a custom domain to run your indie blog, then i say go for it! At least that is better than an alternative like living as a sharecropper on someone else's digital land like Medium.com, etc.