# Using Opensource hosting repo instead of GitHub

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-opensource-hosting-repo-instead-of-github/53592>\
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**Created:** [January 19, 2021, 8:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-opensource-hosting-repo-instead-of-github/53592 "2021-01-19T08:31:57Z")\
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A pragmatic reason for putting public projects on gitlab instead of github is their attitude to privacy. Most notably, github shows a feed of all public activities of each user without any option to hide it. This would be completely fine and expected from social network like facebook, but not from a code hosting website. I’m even a bit surprised that only 15 registered julia packages use gitlab.  
The above applies to public repos only, because activity in private ones obviously doesn’t show anywhere.

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