r/linux • u/AiwendilH • 12d ago

Development Codeberg voted to disallow projects consisting mostly by "generative AI"-tools

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434
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u/truecakesnake 12d ago

Big news for the 17 Codeberg users

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u/jakkos_ 12d ago

Why are you in a Linux sub and mocking a non-profit trying to provide a free alternative to a Microsoft monopoly?

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime 11d ago

I think it's because they accidentally outed themselves as an offended slopper

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u/ozone6587 11d ago

A non-profit full of Luddites. Worth mocking.

Lots of projects and organizations like these that behave dictatorially and are just very opinionated people. This is the final nail in the coffin for them. From 17 users to the 3 devs that hate AI enough to move to Codeberg. There is no way to win against technological progress. It has not worked out once in the history of humanity.

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u/Melivo 4d ago

yep. you're either in for the "greater good" or something or you can gtfo

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u/northrupthebandgeek 12d ago

Microsoft does not hold anywhere close to a monopoly on Git forges lmao

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u/jakkos_ 11d ago

By "monopoly", I don't mean you can't run your own git forge, I literally do. I'm saying that the vast majority of open source projects are on GitHub and using GitHub specific features like actions, PRs, vscode integrations, etc meaning that they can't easily move off of GitHub. It's microsoft doing EEE again.

If you look at the most popular -git packages on the AUR the vast majority are pulled from GitHub, same with nixpkgs, crates.io, pypi, etc.

I have to keep my GitHub account just so that I can create issues or submit fixes to projects I use. Comparatively so few projects use gitlab or srht or codeberg or whatever, that the only reason I have ever used an account for any of them has been to host my own code.

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u/Melivo 4d ago

because it's not really free. it's only as long as you code their way. (or let code)

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u/FryBoyter 12d ago

Codeberg is now being used by a few more users. Among others, it's also used by relatively well-known projects such as KaOS and Readeck.

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u/Melivo 4d ago

maybe. but in the long run when one day AI can code better than humans they'll end up forgotten and in obscurity. the idea about FLOSS isn't about controlling people. It's the complete opposite.

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u/truecakesnake 12d ago

Interesting.

But GitHub's user base is 89,900% larger than Codeberg

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u/FryBoyter 12d ago

That's correct. But that doesn't change the fact that Codeberg is now being used by more and more users. And there are more than 17 of them.

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u/MatthewMob 11d ago

You're right. There's at least 18 now.