@bjoern Thanks for the link. Self-hosting and federation are very important issues (I don't see my use in hosting my own #GitLab instance until it hopefully one day introduces federation; I just use cgit). I'll update my page to include mentions of that.

The GNU ethical repo criteria and my page do focus on software freedom---the issue of GitHub itself being non-free is an SaSS issue. It doesn't matter if GitHub was free software if it doesn't federate, because you'd still be using github.com, which you can't control. But it _does_ matter if the client-side JS is free software, since that code is executing on your computer, just as any other program.

Similarly, using GitLab on gitlab.com for anything but repo hosting has the same SaSS issues. But you're of course free to host your own. Unfortunately, without federation, we have a bunch of fragmented communities. It's a problem that I very much want solved.

So I agree that it's important. I disagree that software freedom is less important; they're related but separate issues that are both essential for different reasons and different types of freedoms.