I Regret Migrating to Codeberg
guy writes a lot of great tech articles tbh, have read quite a few now
Censorship
The part that bothers me isn’t the specific ban on LLM projects, or the specific ban on cryptocurrency projects. It’s that a hub built around “free software” is now telling its users which kinds of software are deemed good and which are not, and that is closer to censorship than it might seem. Once a platform writes into its terms that an entire category “harms its reputation” and can be removed on that basis, the deciding factor stops being whether the code is legal, or functional, or useful, and becomes whether it aligns with a position the platform has taken. I would argue that a significant share of the projects caught by a blanket ban of that kind are legitimate software rather than vibe-coded slop or sh.tcoin implementations.
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Firstly, the favicon highjack on that website is chefs kiss and is having the opposite effect of what's intended. I love it and my only regret is that 'bigfoot nudes' isn't a real site (or is it?)
The author make a good point about the 'romance' around having a 'community' (aka mostly people just requesting features or reporting bugs while not contributing); I think that's probably the number 1 reason why solo dev projects fold.
I do think their solution of labelled LLM / CC projects is a worth considering though, though I have no idea of how to automate that. OTOH, over on !self hosted, we've had several long discussions that have born fruit, such that people are much more forthcoming with [AIP] (Ai assisted projects) attribution.
Give that approximately 100% of all code now touches AI at some stage, the exact demarcation need nuance.
Like the author, I moved away from Github because Microsoft. Codeberg seems (seemed?) like a good alternative and until proven otherwise, I'm happy to see how things shake out. Ultimately though, we should consider any (non self hosted) remote as someone else's computer.
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The disable javascript advocacy is quaint, reminds me of a time when there was a real inflection point maybe back in 2005 or something like this when sites were mostly basic html and tables
Maybe it could have had a push then but disabling javascript now would just result me in turning it on on 99.9% of sites I visit, not practical, more annoying tbh and would not even make a dent in any meaningful stat, 99.9999% of people are not turning it off so :\
That's true but might this push people back to github? Is that what they want?
I've been looking for a code host for my garbage, I think Forgejo might be the way, ironically made by Codeberg?
Thanks for making an interesting comment beyond "ai 😡"
More than welcome. Topic is now being discussed (broadly) over on self hosted; feel free to pop on over
Codeberg has always had rules about what kind of projects can be hosted right from the start. In particular, it is for projects that have permissive open-source licences. In this sense, Codeberg has always been community focused, rather than a generic 'public infrastructure' general purpose hosting platform. With this in mind Codeberg's recent decision about AI created code is very much in line with who they are. So I'd suggest that the article's author simply misunderstood what Codeberg is, and then got unset about it.
Nonsense. The Codeberg project is saying what kinds of software they choose to host. They give their reasons, presumably in the expectation those reasons will be convincing; but they aren't telling you what software is “good”.