Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

Post by inigyou » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 9:25 AM UTC

ivan888 wrote: post #58

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 g…

Post by inigyou » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 9:26 AM UTC

p-e-w wrote: post #376

andor wrote: post #337

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VPNs are generic networking/security tools that can also be used for things like circumventing geoblocking. Cryptocurrency doesn’t have a lot of use cases outside of money laundering, avoiding sanctions and stealing money through rug pulls.

That doesn’t answer the question. What is the underlying ideology/value system? Lots of people would disagree with your second claim, so if that’s what they believe then this itself implies all kinds of nonstandard values.

Post by zombot » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 9:28 AM UTC

DaSHacka wrote: post #134

firloop wrote: post #11

They are not the first code hosting service to do so. sourcehut banned cryptocurrency in 2022: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-10-31-tos-update-cryptocurre... https://man.sr.ht/terms.md#permissible-use Mostly positive HN discussion when this happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403780

The difference is sourcehut has like 50 users

Post by inigyou » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 9:30 AM UTC

tkel wrote: post #308

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> Germans democratically elected Hitler This is such a tired trope and myth from people who haven't studied history Also, you're being comically absurd. You're literally comparing codeberg to Nazi Germany? lol

Post by inigyou » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 9:32 AM UTC

matheusmoreira wrote: post #415

holgerschurig wrote: post #365

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Well, I don't agree that they have NO idea of what slop is. Basically everyone has some idea, see how often many different people here on HN comment "this is pure slop". Also your claim "they DON'T WANT to have to define" is unproofable. Neither you nor me have any insight into what "they" want or don't want. I think, for these two though errors your train-of-thought is already invalid. Further, I'd even argue that p…

> I don't agree that they have NO idea of what slop is. There's no way for anyone reading their rules to know if their projects are slop. It's full of "mostly" and "significantly". That's virtually guaranteed to boil down to "we don't like it". So "they didn't know how to define it" is about the most charitable interpretation I can muster. Alternative interpretations, such as "the vagueness is a feature since it enab…