If the far-right hates Codeberg, that only tells me Codeberg is doing something right.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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That’s a great response. Makes me really respect the people who run Codeberg.
Codeberg is one of the best websites on the Internet right now. This blog update of theirs doubly confirms it for me.
what's the point in attacking a source control website anyways?
It's probably to make minorities feel unsafe, even in their own spaces.
Well the open source crowd is probably one of the most diverse communities in so many ways.
Everything from wife-killers, toenail-eaters, to geniuses that rolled a one in social skills. From Mexico, to Israel, to Indonesia. From a kid in the library who can't afford a computer, to millionaires running a data centre in their basement.
Diversity is one-third of DEI, which currently is public enemy number one. So here we are..
Everything from wife-killers, toenail-eaters, to geniuses
Stop spying on me please.
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Classic case of coop the resistance by introducing completely different talking points.
FOSS is not left or right, it's FOSS. Those trying to change it to something else is trying to coop it.
There is no controversy. The blue vs red lens does not make sense in this context.
Sharing your work without cost to people who need it is pretty solidly left. But it certainly isn't red vs blue, not least because party political colors vary by country and in the US, neither refers to a left-wing party, and in most countries red aligns with left.
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I've never heard of codeberg. Can someone explain what it is, briefly?
Edit: I love being downvoted for asking a simple question. I thought I left reddit to get away from these twits.
The other answers are right, just explaining in simpler language in case anyone needs it:
Codeberg, like Gitlab and Github, is a site for hosting and managing code repositories. These make it easy for many people to collaborate on a software project, review code, keep track of changes and history, keep track of bugs and feature requests, and more.
Here's an example of a (very active) code project to explore: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity (An audio editor based on Audacity)
The most famous code repo management tool, GitHub, was bought by Microsoft a few years ago, so reliable community-run alternatives like Codeberg are increasingly important.
Thanks!
It's a code forge like Github or Gitlab. It uses open source technology on its backend and is often used by FOSS/privacy-minded projects.
It's a thing for people to share git repositories and see the diffs and send changes. Common alternatives are gitlab and github. Codeberg is a fork community maintained after the original owners started to be weird and doing stuff that people didn't like. It's written in Go language. Small and fast for people to deploy themselves and maintain, in complete opposite from the common alternative people used gitlab which is a huge pain to self host and needs enormous resources.
That would be Forgejo. Codeberg is the hosting service which already existed running Gitea before it forked it and started developing it as Forgjo and moving to it from Gitea.
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Can confirm, just got phishing mail "from Codeberg" containing the n word in its subject (?)
Not necessarily a phishing mail. I got tagged in an issue that some idiot created and codeberg dutifully sent me a mail notification.
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I woke up to an email saying ni***r balls lol
Did you subscribe to the "ni***r balls" newsletter?
Same! Very confusing thing first thing in the morning
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Did Codeberg do something/take some stance to attract the attention of the far right? It feels like such an arbitrary target?
From what I gather, I don't think it's about any stance from Codeberg in general, it seems they are attacking "several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights" in particular. They just happen to be hosted in Codeberg.
Either that, or it's not selling out to corporate exploitation/AI like Github is and the ancaps hate that.
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Got the tag email last night. The user was named @truth and all I had was an email titled "N***er Balls".
Same. Thrice
I'm not so sure it was an organized attack or rather a 12 year old kid who found out a stupid way of accomplishing a stupid thing.
I don't know if there were other things done, but those 2 words I've read are more like 2 words a non-native kid would use rather than a far right manifesto, AFAIK, 😅
I was wondering why I randomly received two emails that looked like spam from them, I originally thought they got hacked or something.
If you didn't get the emails, they had the n-word in the title and contained a list of seemingly random users. It looked like what they did was create a fake project named "truth" and I'm guessing they had a bot create a bunch of fake issues for that project that just contained user names that the bot scraped from the website.
@vortexal @opensource @RmDebArc_5 I got the same emails - and sine I was curious I opened the URL (after carefully checking that it really pointed to codeberg). And I was really impressed that the @Codeberg team obvviously already reacted and removed the project. Thanks for talking care!
so interested in what the “several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights” were, do we know?
Codeberg seems to be down atm. I hope they aren't under an even bigger attack
Yeah, they were definitely down again: https://lemmy.today/post/23792488
And they definitely got spammed again.
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