> If you think that GitLab (the company) is any better for your data than GitHub (Microsoft) you are incapable of understanding economy and capitalism.

LOL that's quite the generalization. How about the argument that with GitLab you don't have vendor lock in since you can export and run your own instance at any moment? Seems like a compelling reason for GitLab to be a better place for your data.

How would exporting to a different server work in practice?

Wouldn't every single user have to create a new account in the Gitlab instance running on the new server?

Yes, but if I own a company, and Gitlab does something that we don't like to our project, I could conceivably run my own on a Digital Ocean droplet or AWS or Azure or something, so that my developers don't have to radically change the way they work.

Granted, Github has Enterprise, but that's proprietary, and I like that there's no need to worry about license fees and whatnot with Gitlab.