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Did you know that Australia requires everyone to vote in national elections? There are also systems that exist between “legally mandated voting” and “whoever shows up”. You could even set different thresholds based on the importance of the issue! (Decisions like ToS changes would seem to be quite important.)
What about a decision like spam filtering? Is that important?
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It sounds like Codeberg needs to define both clear guidelines and a systematic process by which potential violations of the policy can be fairly reviewed and/or appealed—table stakes for a system that’s going to be integrated into your project as a hosting provider and community hub. What you seem to be arguing for is seat-of-the-pants reactive mob governance. Functional communities and societies don’t work that way.
It sounds like the process is that if your project is obviously spam, they just delete it and ban you, otherwise they reach out to you first. Such indkvidualized contact is only possible because Codeberg is relatively small, and not a garbage dump for every code file or spam project.
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> 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…
If I showed you an image with black sections and red sections, would you be able to decide whether it was mostly black or mostly red?
This is more like asking someone colorblind which shade of red the image is closer to.
I don't think you want to store your source code in a place where they ban projects based on politics [1]: > Allowing these projects is not a neutral stance; the effects to the environment are severe. The "DarkFi" (seemingly some crypto designed for criminals, citing an FBI director) project for example uses a "PoW blockchain" (per their readme). PoW (Proof-Of-Work) projects waste an astonishing amount of computation…
I'd rather companies actually care (or even just care about seeming to care) about ethics, rather than only caring what makes the line go up the fastest, yes. A company that treats ethics as optional, or that thinks "it's a business" excuses every imaginable sin, is one that will happily screw you and me over too. Also, in the long term, making climate change worse is a catastrophically bad decision for absolutely ev…
Its like how the EU kneecaps everything related to energy because of the climate while literally the best case scenarios for the EU lawa is to be 0.1 colder, because the EU isn't the bigger emitter. It just doesn't matter.
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So what is Codeberg’s political stance? From which ideology does it follow that crypto projects are bad, but VPN projects are not, for example?
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.
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.
Publishing platforms’ censorship policies affect readers because they affect discovery and decide, like a parent, what you should or should not be allowed to read.
The fact that Codeberg has the power to do this is a good reason not to host your code on Codeberg. The fact that they have ideological commitments that make them think banning cryptocurrency projects is a good idea is a separate good reason not to host your code on Codeberg. Fortunately Codeberg is a relatively small player and Git forge hosting is fairly competitive and among the easiest types of online service to…
> The fact that Codeberg has the power to do this is a good reason not to host your code on Codeberg. Everything other than full self-hosting has this exact power
(KF got banned from Cloudflare, then had a lot of trouble finding an ISP, eventually made their own, and then had trouble finding upstreams. You might wonder what they did that was so bad but not illegal - that's a long story.)
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If I showed you an image with black sections and red sections, would you be able to decide whether it was mostly black or mostly red?
I could write a script that could tell you the sum total of red and black pixels. This is more like asking someone colorblind which shade of red the image is closer to.