Any plans for Privacy Guides to self-host GitLab?

[Lukas (Lukas Dutovas)]

Are there any plans for Privacy Guides to self-host GitLab in the future?

GitHub shadowbans people who use email aliases and/or VPNs or Tor. Also, the network effect of GitHub is very strong, and I don’t think that PG should contribute to that.

If the network effect of iMessage, Facetime, WhatsApp, etc. is a problem, then the network effect of GitHub is also a problem.

[jerm]

Migrate from GitHub

https://git.jonaharagon.net/privacyguides/privacyguides.org

They have multiple mirrors and selfhost Gitea.

[delosmzp (Walter Burns)]

I am guessing Github is preferred as more people know it more than Gitlab or other alternatives for any contributions they may be willing or able to make.

Either way, it is meant to open source things - doesn’t quite matter (unless you have highly specific rationales) where it is hosted.

[delosmzp (Walter Burns)]

Ah, beat me again.

[Lukas (Lukas Dutovas)]

But everything pretty much happens on GitHub.

[jonah (Jonah Aragon)]

We would never switch to GitLab in any case.

Migrate from GitHub

Anyways, to answer the OP: We’re not going to migrate off GitHub for a long time, at least until long after Sync/Mirror Issues and Pull-Requests on migrated repository · Issue #18369 · go-gitea/gitea · GitHub is completed which will allow us to test our Gitea instance more heavily. This doesn’t really matter for you, because we already have plenty of replacements: If you want to open an issue, you can instead: Open a topic in Site Development here on the forum If you want to contribute to t…

We could consider Forgejo when federation is functional.

[delosmzp (Walter Burns)]

TIL. Thanks!