Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

Post by hparadiz » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 5:22 AM UTC

squigz wrote: post #170

bel8 wrote: post #108

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They don't have to be affected to be worried. It's how it was done and possibilities of further bans that is worrisome. I have small open source projects that I won't move to Codeberg ever now because I don't want to waste any mental energy pondering if I might get banned in the future. For example I have a stock trading backtracking strategy test tool. Will they ban anything related to fintech in the future because…

What exactly about "how it was done" is alarming to you?

Post by squigz » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 5:25 AM UTC

hparadiz wrote: post #258

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They will just put it to user vote, same way all their policy is decided. > The second vote was more controversial, but was also accepted with 358 agreements vs 144 disagreements (and 14 abstentions), with a high voter turn-out of around 50% of active members.

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Post by hparadiz » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 5:29 AM UTC

squigz wrote: post #273

hparadiz wrote: post #258

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What do you propose is a better way of deciding things?

Post by colordrops » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 5:31 AM UTC

kurante wrote: post #133

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…

I strongly disagree: I think this is a perfectly acceptable action. No project is entitled to host their project there, nor is any project compelled to do so, so I don't see why there is any harm in having this instance of Forgejo moderate itself as it sees fit. They have no moral requirement to support all kinds of software. If you disagree with their beliefs, you are free to host your own instance or find a code fo…

Post by juliangmp » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 5:33 AM UTC

cush wrote: post #265

trentor wrote: post #26

As with the AI ban this was a community decision done by a majority vote. It seems that most people commenting or writing articles in the last few days don't have a Codeberg account or never visit the forum.

What does it take to get a vote? Could there be some sabotage here?