alt Hacker NewsThe 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 self-host, so the effect of this on most Git-forge-users is pretty minimal.
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Exactly, I will no longer be recommending Codeberg moving forward for the same reason I don’t recommend GitHub. Political risk is a real concern for the projects I most care about.
> 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
Banning cryptocurrency scams seems like a pretty good reason to use codeberg.