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Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first

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Zedless

This is Zedless, a fork of Zed that's designed to be privacy-friendly and local-first.

Zedless is currently work-in-progress. Feel free to contribute!

Planned Changes from Upstream

This is a list of things that Zedless will do differently.

No reliance on proprietary cloud services Components and features that strictly rely on non-selfhostable cloud services will be removed.

No spyware Telemetry and automatic crash reporting will be removed.

Priority on bringing your own infrastructure Any feature that makes use of a network service will allow you to configure which provider to use in a standard format, e.g. by specifying the base URL of an API. Any such feature will not have a list of "default providers". Any such feature will be disabled by default.

No CLA Contributors' copyright shall not be reassigned. No rugpulls.

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