In my version control courses I often get the question:
🤷 "Should I use GitHub or GitLab?" 🤷
If you are a researcher, I think you can answer that question for yourself by answering the following two questions:
🤝 Where is my community?: Go where your community is.
🏠 Does my institution have a GitLab instance?: If yes, it is often a good idea to at least start your project on the institutional instance. Copying to GitHub later on is done in <5 minutes.
Do ya'll agree with my take? 😉