Sadly, and often wrongly, many people seem to consider GitHub easier to manage or more dependable than a list on their own web site. Regarding the lists themse

Sadly, and often wrongly, many people seem to consider GitHub easier to manage or more dependable than a list on their own web site. Regarding the lists themselves, it's a straightforward strategy against enshittification. Web search tends to bury valuable content under heaps of worthless content, nowadays mostly "AI" generated content, so dealing with a person (even if their list is somewhat low quality or not aligned with your needs) gives a lot of signal to noise improvement over the aggregate output of the SEO/advertisement industrial complex.