A brief comment on Codeberg’s new terms, and why a free-software host deciding which projects are welcome worries me more than the bans themselves.

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.

  • thunderousApplaus@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    9 days ago

    Thanks for the constructive feedback! I’ll add the context ASAP.

    But I don’t want to tell people how to think. IMO people should form their own (educated) opinions. I know this community has a heavy bias and I respect that, but can’t I just post new opinions so we can have a discussion around that (and maybe even change our opinions based on the outcome of the discussion)?

    In my experience not everyone is knowledgeable about everything and an open and respectful (as opposed to hostile) discussion is the way to inform new opinions. Am mistaken in thinking my approach should be tolerated in this community?

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      Awesome, thanks!

      Considering “[…] thinking my approach should be tolerated […]”: I’m pretty sure this (AI) is one of the polarizing topics here. Most people will come with pre-formed opinions, and/or they’re quite trigger-happy with the up- and downvote buttons. Informing new opinions is rarely what happens with polarizing topics on the internet 😆.

      It’s appreciated by some users, though!