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Re:Ask HN: Notion is withholding my company data, what can I... by pmontra on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:45PM (#27613737)
In the case of GitHub and any other similar service the lockin is the number of services they added to the plain repository. Pull requests, issues, wiki, API for third party services, etc. You get back some of them if you self host with GitLab but every service supports GitHub, maybe not GitLab.

In this case, I don't even know what they get when they export from Notion but how are they going to collaborate on those data?

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Re:Ask HN: Notion is withholding my company data, what can I... by josephg on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:50PM (#27613785)
Yeah, I wish PRs, issues, wiki and all that was also stored in the git repository. I understand there's no incentive for github to do so, but it would make interoperability so much easier.

> how are they going to collaborate on those data?

CRDTs make collaboration possible and work well, without needing a central source of truth. For example, Yjs.

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Re:Ask HN: Notion is withholding my company data, what can I... by pmontra on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:51AM (#27614984)
The wiki is a git repository of markdown files (maybe some other format too.) I edit locally, commit and push to GitHub. The name of the repository is user/project.wiki The file for the sidebar is _Sidebar.md

No idea if other services can import those files into their wikis.

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