How is everyone handling the 2FA requirement for GitHub? (docs.github.com)

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Just wondering what people are using to meet the 2FA requirement GitHub has been rolling out. I don't love the idea of having an authenticator app installed on my phone just to log into GitHub. And really don't want to give them my phone number just to log in.

Last year, we announced our commitment to require all developers who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable two-factor authentication (2FA)...

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[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I deleted my github account because fuck microsoft. Open source should not be hosted on their servers.

In regards to forced 2fa, as I don't need it on my projects, there would be literally nothing lost if somebody gets into my account.

Just for the convenience I moved them to my selfhosted forgejo and mirroring to sr.ht as a backup.

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