If you add code to Github and host it on Vercel, isn't ownership still yours?

		AndreVitorio on Oct 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your ... If you add code to Github and host it on Vercel, isn't ownership still yours?

juunpp on Oct 23, 2022 [–]

Seeing that Github is exploiting FOSS for its own commercial interests and possibly violating licenses (Copilot), it's not exactly the kind of ownership that I envision when somebody says "own your data".

Don't know much about Vercel, but I'd be skeptical.

I think it'd be an improvement over this project to make those dependencies optional. For example, if I wanted to self-host. I'm using NetlifyCMS for a project and I agree with others that the whole space could use a bit of innovation.

AndreVitorio on Oct 23, 2022 | [–]

In my opinion, code I add to Github is still mine. Guess we'll have to agree to disagree here.

Self-hosting would be awesome indeed, but I think doing it would be quite complicated because of the authentication part, which is needed to push changes to a git provider.

juunpp on Oct 24, 2022 | | [–]

I don't know how much you want to get into this, but since we're already on this topic:

https://www.netlifycms.org/docs/external-oauth-clients/ https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/oauth2-provider/

NetlifyCMS allows you to define your own backends, and Gitea now has OAuth2 support. Should be able to adopt a similar strategy and allow Gitea to be used as a backend.

AndreVitorio on Oct 24, 2022 | | [–]

Thanks for the references. I'm definitely interested in adding more options to Outstatic. Haven't heard of Gitea before. It looks cool :)