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Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by danielheath »

burnt-resistor wrote: post #85
danpalmer wrote: post #5

Why? Banning abuse is fine, and disliking Cryptocurrency projects at a moral level is fine, but running a coffee hosting service and putting your moral judgements on projects like this just seems childish and unserious. I'm also apparently banned from reading the article, despite having no previous usage of Codeberg or any history with the project, so I can't even see their reasoning.

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Equating someone not wanting you on their website with tyranny sure is a take.

You’re welcome to host it at your own venue. Or , I guess, to keep whining that you’re not being given free services by someone who dislikes your work.

Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by squigz »

avaer wrote: post #65
inigyou wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Google or Microsoft do that?

Google/Microsoft offer services in exchange for money. They are not tax exempt charities purporting to do beneficial work for society to earn that status. And they don't block your usage based on your perceived ideology.

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Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by altmanaltman »

jjmarr wrote: post #99
danpalmer wrote: post #5

Why? Banning abuse is fine, and disliking Cryptocurrency projects at a moral level is fine, but running a coffee hosting service and putting your moral judgements on projects like this just seems childish and unserious. I'm also apparently banned from reading the article, despite having no previous usage of Codeberg or any history with the project, so I can't even see their reasoning.

In the words of the person who announced the ban, when moderating a discussion on it 8 months prior:[1] > > Dear Codeberg, please push out and ban these political fighters. > This is not a neutral space, Codeberg is political. If you disagree with someone, be constructive and don't call them merely political and think that's a reason for the discussion to stop. the maintainers of Codeberg do not believe that they are…

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Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by birksherty »

raincole wrote: post #126
jdormit wrote: post #107

Wow. I have never worked on any cryptocurrency projects and never intend to, but I will certainly be staying very far away from Codeberg because of this. There are some levels of censorship that make sense for a code forge - “you can’t do crimes on our servers”, “you can’t host malware on our servers”, etc. But inflicting a subjective moral judgement on an entire category of software sends the message that this isn’t…

My rule of thumb: just use the most mainstream options unless I have a very, very strong reason to do otherwise. The mainstream options will screw you, but the niche options will screw you in totally unexpected ways.

Are these comments written buy bots? It's the mainstream ones that have been screwing people without any recovery options, there were many horrifying top posts in hn itself in last few years.

Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by elictronic »

pibaker wrote: post #35

I'm not personally a fan of this move or the vibe coding rule. That being said, I genuinely wonder how many people complaining about the rule are personally affected. Seems weird to me to complain about a service setting its own rules when you don't engage with it or contribute to it.

Crypto shills have alot of money and bots to push their agenda. Issue is the community is so toxic and scammy at this point it might be more disliked than AI slop by anyone with a pulse.

Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by glerk »

krapp wrote: post #121
glerk wrote: post #117

Codeberg can ban whatever they want on their platform. The thing is nobody cares about codeberg, and this is probably just a publicity stunt.

Clearly some people do care about Codeberg given how much palpitating outrage there is in this very thread.

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Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by zarzavat »

jjmarr wrote: post #75

In the prior words[1] of Gusted, one of the board members that announced the ban: > This is not a neutral space, Codeberg is political. If you disagree with someone, be constructive and don't call them merely political and think that's a reason for the discussion to stop. [1] https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/2184#issuecom...

Pretending to run an inclusive git hosting service for FOSS and then attacking your own users because their code is the wrong type of algorithm isn't politics, it's just being an asshole.

Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by birksherty »

tapoxi wrote: post #71
b40d-48b2-979e wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It's not about crypto, its about process. Compare this action to one by Debian or Wikipedia where there's a formal proposal, time for written pros and cons with convincing arguments for each side, and a meeting where the vote is held and impact to stakeholders is discussed. You can't make large changes like this without undermining your viability as stable infrastructure.

Too many scammers in crypto. It's a good decision. Cryptos and scammers can host their own.

Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by bit-anarchist »

tired-turtle wrote: post #125
bit-anarchist wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have it backwards, most cryptocurrencies transactions are, at best, pseudononymous, where, by contrast, cash transactions are anonymous by default. > What has society gained in return? A currency technology that doesn't rely on central authority, slavery nor imperialism to exist.

I wrote USD, not cash. Most transactions in USD are electronic, not physical, so it’s a little unclear what point you’re trying to make.

USD includes cash. In fact, cash is the preferred payment method for criminal things, contending with Monero, so complaining about its inclusion is certainly something.

Going even further, cryptcurrencies, being distrusted ledgers, still fulfill the ability to test for someone "social trust" within a transaction, anonymous or not. Also, it's not like we, as the whole society, have access to your transaction history at all times with USD (which we do with Bitcoin, funnily enough).

Re: Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

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Post by adithyassekhar »

Every open source project ends up politically opinionated because the people behind it is married to the idea of that project than what it delivers.

Commercial ones only care about what the project brings in, often money, but that often comes because of whatever value it provides the customer.

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