Heard only good things about Codeberg, I've only used it to access code so can't really speak to anything else.
Was recently made aware of this new part;
"Brought to you by an inclusive community under the umbrella of Codeberg e.V., a democratic non-profit organization, Forgejo can be trusted to be exclusively Free Software."
Wow, I was not aware of this. That’s a pretty big reason why I make my stuff open-source, so others can look through it and learn from it. I know, everyone who stayed on GitHub is officially Microsoft’s bitch now, but I still can’t fathom why this didn’t make bigger waves…
Probably because like you I wasn’t aware of what Microsoft was up to. Let’s just hope embrace extend extinguish doesn’t end up with a GitHub version of git.
That is my understanding of it, too, yeah. In principle, I’m also okay with them providing something like this. I’m just worried that they’ll eventually start adding stuff into it, which impacts Git.
Companies are putting moats around their data (or the data they host) because AI needs data to train its models on. It is the same reason Reddit changed their API access.
I’ll even wager 20 imaginary internet coins that Wikipedia will require logins to do any searching within the next year.
In this case I don’t think that’s the reason. All code on github is not Microsoft’s data, is open source and easily downloadable by whoever needs it to train the models.
This is an inconvenience only for humans to force them to have an account
Yeah, I’m not sure what this article is even trying to say; this has been happening for a while now.
Like, it’s shitty, but it’s not even the shittiest thing Github has done. I’m more annoyed about the whole AI stuff, the fact that they have de-facto veto powers on most open source projects and that they don’t let you have multiple accounts to separate your professional life from your cringe life.
Modern times are really “people should get off of X platform but don’t because people don’t want to move”.
they don’t let you have multiple accounts to separate your professional life from your cringe life
Can you post more on this? I found this article that seems to recommend you only use one account, but doesn’t seem to suggest that they enforce it. I have like 8 GitHub accounts with a cringe/professional mix, so hopefully that’s not something I need to fix. (Ironically I usually stay logged out anyway)
Ruh roh. Yeah I’m involved with several projects that I’d rather not trace back to my other identities, and I make a new GitHub account per job. Even if they start enforcing it I imagine it’s quite hard for them to actually figure out what’s all connected without amping up their identification schemes with mandatory phone numbers and etc. I guess we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it.
I didn’t clear my cookies/use a vpn to sign up for multiple accounts.
All registered accounts, including my main one, were locked. All secondary ones were shadowbanned. I had to message support to get restrictions on my main removed.
All the horror stories I’ve read about this sort of thing usually end in “I tried to contact support/submit an appeal but they told me to take a hike”.
They…have an “add account” feature right in their UI though. They are obviously okay with multiple accounts. Perhaps it is an abuse thing like if they notice you sock puppeting or something.
That’s for if you have a personal account and one provided by your company.
In some cases, you may need to use multiple accounts on GitHub.com. For example, you may have a personal account for open source contributions, and your employer may also create and manage a user account for you within an enterprise.
I’m not sure where they have their information from, I have 2 very unique, personal accounts on github and i’ve had zero issues.
first is my public “portfolio” page and occasional professional/corporate client connected account, it is very much an account that you would “know” my info, linkedin, keybase, etc identifiers. Then i have a personal one that I use to contribute more anonymously, which I use to further opensource projects that my clients wouldn’t want me contributing to due to conflict of interest. I’m not talking espionage levels, just modified supportive code that i have contributed to an enterprise that doesn’t support opensource initiatives (aka, they’d pay a fine if it ever came public).
They just replied with this link, which has it listed as the third bullet. I suspect they don’t actually care enough to do anything, but I had no idea that it was in their ToS.
ha, good info. I wouldn’t meet that violation because my main public account is a pro account. But, you’re not alone in multiple accounts and I assume unless you’re violating other TOS, you’ll be fine.
What do you mean they don’t let you have multiple accounts? I’ve had three accounts for years, and I’m not doing anything to hide the fact they’re all me.
Modern times are really “people should get off of X platform but don’t because people don’t want to move”.
More like “people should get off of X platform but don’t because people they regularly interact with don’t want to move, and because herd mentality”
It’s the same reason why people tolerate YouTube’s bullshit. The audience won’t switch to a platform without content, and the content creators won’t switch to a platform without an audience.
You’re absolutely right. I was thinking about global, unscoped search. That sucks.
Searching code globally across GitHub.com already requires users to login, but starting today, we are extending that to include repository-scoped search as well.
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