One thing I want to speak out against is the heavy-handed censorship on the GitHub bitcoin org. I've been victim to it also.

It needs to stop. In CONTRIBUTING.md, it says:

"Anyone may participate in peer review which is expressed by comments in the pull request."

Anyone who uses Bitcoin is a peer. It's literally a Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System. Peers are not restricted to developers. Users are peers. They are stakeholders. And for those censoring comments, blocking people from commenting on PRs, and blocking people from the org entirely: They need to not only stop, they need to undo the damage they caused. Shame on the Bitcoin org censors for letting it get this far.

Criticism isn't spam, even if it's from "outsiders". If Core devs want to retain any semblance of moral authority at this point, they need to relax their own "spam filters" and allow conversations to be had in the places where the work is being done.

If they don't, people will come up with alternative spaces that don't censor. GitHub isn't the ideal place for bitcoin dev anyway. I like GitHub a lot, I use it often during my course of work, and so it would be nice to continue to depend on it, but if things don't change, alternatives will manifest.