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[–] [email protected] 77 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Boycott all US based services.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago

American here, please do this.

All of our companies are run by scumbags taking advantage of useful idiots. We need more options and legitimate competition.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 days ago

Everyone who is censored, everyone who abuses their mod powers; it just creates an opportunity for people to pick up the slack and create better communities.

You only have yourselves to blame, dickhead mods.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 days ago (42 children)

One of their main contributors are in US sanctioned regions (Russia) so they can't access it.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (30 children)

We need something like Forgejo, but decentralized and federated, like Lemmy. I don't want to create a new account for every Forgejo instance, just to be able to report a bug...

Edit: Added "and federated"

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Forgejo is in fact working on being decentralized, just like the underlying git structure is. There are some first federation things in there, but the full implementation is still pretty far out.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Git is already decentralized, nothing is stopping you from adding multiple remotes to your repo.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (5 children)

The issue tracker is usually the concern

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
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[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

I always kept telling Free-software & OpenSource projects/developers to move to GitLab, Codeberg or SourceHut

You cannot fight capitalists on a capitalists platform.

& if you want something that's even more independent try Fossil

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Codeberg is a non-profit that has no fees, but accepts donations. They only allow FOSS projects.

Why would I move away from git if I could just move away from github/lab and keep git?

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Anyone have the story behind this? Fuck Microsoft and all that, but Github has historically been pretty good when it comes to not banning people for stupid reasons. Usually, it's a DMCA thing or a valid security threat.

Recently, there was some controversy about closed source code powering a component of the project (https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/9837) but I didn't keep up with that. Could this ban be related to that?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago (19 children)

Some contributer got flagged by US sanctions based on their IP, I think

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

why is Organic Street Maps better than the other ones, that claim to be Open Street Maps derived?

bandwidth is not disposable ya'll.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Two reasons:

  • interface rocks
  • maps are downloaded for offline use
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've been using OsmAnd for years, and offline maps has always been one of their main things.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

ai driven anti-spam is destroying the internet and deleting legitimate businesses every day. there is usually no customer support, and there are no humans in charge. there is nothing you can do.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This was always going to jappen datahoarders we have to mirror all of github!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

Nice! It even supports the same RSS feed format. For anyone who also wants FOSS releases injected straight into their veins https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps/releases.atom

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Sucks for Organic Maps but that's the FAANG.

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