Yes. In case Nextcloud would move to a self-hosted solution I would suggest to enable something like Login with GitHub to make it easy for everyone to contribute. It seems still possible to create a local account on that instance without using GitHub.
Surveillance is hardly a capitalist attribute. Other forms of society engage in much deeper surveillance. Many non-capitalist countries in the world even outlaw encryption.
Or you could always go at it from the other direction: enable federated Nextcloud login on private GitHubs. 
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Oh dear, you should rethink this sentence and read Shoshana Zuboff, Harvard Business School, āThe Age of surveilance capitalismā.
No need to rethink it; as I said, there is surveillance ingrained to a much greater extent in non-capitalist systems. Thatās not to say it isnāt a problem (I will openly say plenty about Google for instance), and I agree that a decentralized form of authentication at large would be beneficial, though it does come with its own hurdles and problems.
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Pioneered by the Five Eyes member Australia
Long before some non-capitalist countries learned what encryption meansā¦