Give up GitHub and more independency from US based companies

[tflidd]

Two more discussions I found, with the developers in 2018:

Migrate from GitHub to git.nextcloud.com

and on the forum in 2022:

Nextcloud and Github - time to go?

What do you think about this? Is it really time to say goodbye to Github? I mean, isn’t Nextcloud about self hosting in the first place? So it might be worth thinking about having an own Gitlab instance for example.

@awelzel

general implications of using US based services

They care a lot:

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