• Dreeg Ocedam@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    A FLOSS solution could do exactly the same. You have no way of knowing what is actually running on the servers…

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      3 years ago

      I think there’s a difference if it’s being run by a non-profit organization that is open source than if it is run by an proprietary software multi billion dollar company, if let’s say, Gittea would do something the likes of this it would probably end up being a libre project, which most likely everyone would be okay with, and they would surely make people know about it firsthand, for example. It’s not so much about what’s running on the servers but about trust and the fact that they own your code to a certain extent.

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        3 years ago

        Yeah, but in the case of GitHub, any accusation of violating the privacy of its users is still pure speculation.