Thought it relevant to this community and posted it to have a discussion on this topic. I am not the author of this blog nor do I endorse the authors views.

Before leaving an upvote or a downvote (a function that IMO should be reserved to posts/comments that are offtopic, made in bad faith or low quality), please first read the blog post.

TL;DR: Author of the blog is criticising Codeberg outright banning LLM and crypto projects. Author thinks this approach is not nuanced enough and introduces censorship to the platform. Author therefore decided to selfhost his projects that the author previously had migrated to Codeberg.

  • it_depends_man@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Despite not owning a single project that falls into either banned category, I’m now going to look into setting up my own public Git host, and I’ll move off Codeberg only a few months after moving there, because of this.

    Good.

    Bye!

    I don’t want to depend on a platform that rewrites its terms of service on a whim, without properly announcing that the change was even under consideration, and without giving its users a way to weigh in.

    This is false, codeberg is a German non profit association that you can just join and then participate in that community and be part of the decision making process. YOU(/The author) didn’t do that.

    https://join.codeberg.org/

    • thunderousApplaus@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      2 months ago

      Firstly, why the hostility? Neither myself nor the author of the blog are advocating pro-slop positions.

      Secondly, it isn’t false as Codeberg doesn’t give it’s users voting powers. It gives voting powers to active members. How would a user supposed to have known to register as an active member to vote on a topic impacting them that wasn’t covered by the TOS beforehand? If you follow the tech news on the fediverse then sure. But that isn’t a necessary requirement to host a Codeberg repo. Can you really confidently claim that everything was communicated perfectly regarding this ban?

      • it_depends_man@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Neither myself nor the author

        I have no way of knowing that you are not the author, if you feel addressed and unfairly attacked, I apologize.

        Firstly, why the hostility?

        Because it’s an extremely ignorant position. Literally. When you visit their website the information that it is an association and a community is BLASTED into your face.

        https://codeberg.org/

        If a user moves away from MSFT/github because they don’t like them, I would very much expect that new user to do the bare minimum of investigating who this new thing is they trust with their code. And an association has official membership and of course those members get to vote on such things. That’s how any club works. If the music club in school does a performance, the club decides what they’re going to play, not the audience.

        Can you really confidently claim that everything was communicated perfectly regarding this ban?

        This is not a “I have a contract with this corporate entity and I am entitled to service, communication or compensation” situation.

        This is a “I have half heartedly joined a club, didn’t care for the club activities or opinions of the community and I am acting surprised and pissed that the club is doing club things.” situation. Which is ridiculous and deserves ridicule and hostility.

        But also, if this is a thing they have a problem with, self hosting is the perfect solution for the author.

        • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Yeah, I feel sometimes people should at least make some effort to add context to the dumped links… Though… In practice, 99% of stuff on Lemmy is re-posts. Chance an OP posted their own blog post are slim to none. Happens, though.

          • thunderousApplaus@sh.itjust.worksOP
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            2 months ago

            After reading other comments I see now how the author’s stance was ignorant. But what context should I have added? That I am not the author?

            Although I’m not really new to Lemmy in general, making posts is a new one for me but I am willing to learn how to make better posts.

            • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Hmmh. Yeah, I’m writing this from the perspective of someone who likes to talk in the comments. So I generally appreciate to know whether OP wants to discuss a topic, inform people, post the news or whatever. That changes how I react to a post.

              Also appreciate some lead text in the body, so I don’t need to click on 200 links a day to find out what’s behind the url or (clickbaity) title…

              But that’s usually not how it’s done here. A lot of people just post the link and that’s it. I guess in your instance it would have been helpful to disclose whether that’s your perspective on things… Or whether you want to draw attention to someone’s ignorant opinion… I suppose most of the downvotes are because people are confused (as always) and it’s a mixture of just reading the title and disliking the content… Though… Similar posts about: OpenAI has this and that weird stance usually get upvotes here. So I suppose if you want to draw attention to someone having weird opinions, you should be getting upvotes as well?! I just think if it’s backwards like this (the article fits fuck_ai because they’re wrong), you might want to add a few words to make it clear people aren’t supposed to sympathize with the text.