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Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by cute_boi »

firloop wrote: post #12
weakened_malloc wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They also want to ban 'AI slop' - I'd love to see how they draw the lines on that one.

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And it’s easy to detect slop that sucks up infrastructure resources just by looking at commit rates. For example, Peter Steinberger made 271,281 commits. No wonder GitHub goes down regularly because of the increase in slop activity.

Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by avaer »

inigyou wrote: post #38

Codeberg is not a public dumping ground. It is a service offered by a non-profit with specific goals and missions.

That's fair.

They should probably put their political doctrines and ideologies on the home page so people can know if their projects fall into the category of undesirables before they make an account, since the list seems to be expanding.

Otherwise it's hard to tell what will be banned next.

Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by nyanmatt »

b40d-48b2-979e wrote: post #33
tapoxi wrote: post #20

I don't like crypto but this is poor reasoning, hastily implemented, and given very little time for discussion. There does not seem to be any concrete plan for notifying impacted projects or giving them a roadmap to migrate. This is unprofessional and severely harms their credibility. It's not what was done but how they did it, and I don't doubt that subsequent policy changes can and will be implemented in the same m…

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So what, then? Disallow code that isn't deemed credible or professional by what metric? This whole thing is getting too political. I just want to write open-source software and let the users decide its worth.

Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by ivan888 »

fishgoesblub wrote: post #2

Let this be a reminder to never trust any service be it one ran by a billion dollar company, to one ran by volunteers. You will be eventually screwed over. Make backup plans, and self-host whatever you can so nothing can be taken from you. For Git forges, I personally recommend Gitea[1], or Forgejo[2] (a Gitea fork by Codeberg) [1]: https://about.gitea.com/ [2]: https://forgejo.org/

It’s probably not too important to choose a service that you think you can trust fully, because that trust might be broken at some point. But having an identifier that can be swapped to different backends, so people can find you again when the host inevitability changes, is a stronger strategy. I think the importance of owning domain names will increase, and using those as the canonical identifier of a project will give it more permanence. The procedures for seizure and censorship with domain names are better established and understood.

Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by z0ltan »

fishgoesblub wrote: post #2

Let this be a reminder to never trust any service be it one ran by a billion dollar company, to one ran by volunteers. You will be eventually screwed over. Make backup plans, and self-host whatever you can so nothing can be taken from you. For Git forges, I personally recommend Gitea[1], or Forgejo[2] (a Gitea fork by Codeberg) [1]: https://about.gitea.com/ [2]: https://forgejo.org/

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Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by hackinthebochs »

shikck200 wrote: post #49

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While that's true, it's unrelated to hosting code. A reliable code hosting site should be agnostic to content. Once they start making editorial decisions about what projects to host, why should anyone trust them with their project?
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