Once upon a time I was conflicted about GitLab Versus GitHub. Not any more. GitHub is the only viable option for people with the broadest needs. In fact, giving others your GitHub address is more important than giving them any other customized web site address — yes, even if you are a graphic designer. Everything can be linked from GitHub and people can follow you on GitHub just like any other social media service, but unlike LinkedIn your followers get to see your work, not a bunch of motivational posters and what they ate for dinner. GitHub’s slogan has always been “the social media site for developers” but you don’t have to be a developer to benefit. In fact, the Zettelkasten on GitHub makes this value apply to anyone who writes anything.
Even if you aren’t a technologist, GitHub could quite possibly still be the most important Web service you will ever have an account on.
Why?
Because GitHub can host anything that matters in a way that no other service can provide. People using Google docs, Dropbox (and all the other variations of such things) are just plain stupid for not using GitHub instead. GitHub provides granular history and version control that is build for professionals, and even though Microsoft might not be entirely trustworthy, you can be sure they aren’t marketing to you based on what they mine out of your private repos — especially if you encrypt that data before storing it there.
The only reason not to use GitHub if you need to store lots of big files (videos, large images, etc.)
I know a lot of mainstream people who are going to complain about the complexity of using GitHub. But usually none of them have tried it. (My wife would be one of those.) Sadly, most of these people have no backup strategy at all (also like my wife). GitHub lets you literally drag and drop content into any repo and has a very easy to use interface for GUI users as well as the most powerful command line tool available for such things.