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Document: WR-026 P. Webb
2026.07.23
On Codeberg banning crypto and LLM-assisted repos
Body
The great thing about the internet is that other people have the same
thoughts as you, saving you from typing your own novel. Case in
point[1]:
> It’s frankly a bit snotty of _Codeberg_ to make this argument at
> all, considering that the platform effectively lives inside the
> _Forgejo_ bubble, and _Forgejo_ ~~mutinied~~ _inherited_ its
> community of active contributors from _Gitea_, who had spent the
> better part of six years building that community before _Forgejo_
> even existed. A project that acquired its own community by
> hard-forking someone else’s, then turned around to lecture solo
> developers about not having one, is a difficult position to argue
> from with a straight face.
>
> In addition, _Codeberg_ conflates _“having a community”_ with
> _“being legitimate software worth hosting”_, when the bar for a
> personal project has always been a working build, ideally a
> license, and maybe a README, and not a channel full of
> contributors. A good deal of what makes the small, single-author
> tool ecosystem worth having is precisely that it doesn’t need a
> community to justify its existence, and a forge whose entire
> selling point is hosting the code of individuals is an odd place to
> argue the opposite.
and[2]:
> I'm sure you have some morally high reasons to stand against
> cryptocurrency, but the "illicit trade" and "evasion of sanctions"
> cited by sourcehut (since you seem to base your decision on it) are
> also what allows regular people, including LGBTQ+ people, living in
> sanctioned countries (which also, what a surprise, turn out to be
> unsafe for LGBTQ+ folk a lot of the time), to buy goods and
> send/receive money from abroad without being prosecuted by their
> governments (hi foreign agent laws! hi "extremism" and
> "terrorism" laws!).
>
> I'm sorry, anti-war transgender person stuck in Russia, but from
> our moral stance, you shouldn't be able to purchase HRT from a lab
> using your XMR wallet. nor should your friend be able to pay for
> their foreign VPN VDS that they use to bypass the internet
> restrictions in USDT. the projects you used for this were hosted on
> Codeberg and not some other platform? well, too bad, they'll have
> to go someplace else that minds your existence or is welcoming to
> cryptocurrency as a whole, and you will wait. you and the tools you
> use will move to a greedy corporate hosting that is likely to
> impose its own restrictions on you in the future, or, even better,
> move to a less reliable self-hosted option, one per each tool to
> make it less maintainable and less accessible.
>
> by taking this stance, at least from my perspective, you're just
> projecting your morally high delusion of dirty illicit 3rd world
> crypto scammers that are damaging the moral purity of Codeberg
> by... hosting code for their projects here?! which, mind you,
> almost all the time will just contain tools, _tools_ to do good or
> bad. do you want to ban BitTorrent-related projects from Codeberg
> next because they are "mostly used to get illegal access to
> unlicensed digital goods and services (piracy)" and also take up
> world bandwidth and compute? how about banning YouTube downloaders
> after those? hey, let's make it clear that Codeberg will not stand
> a single repo on its platform that involves encrypted messaging:
> you know only criminals use Matrix, right?
finally, from your's truly[3]:
> They really quoted the FBI Director in their reasoning? Unserious
> people. Anything law enforcement can’t peek into is “designed
> for criminals.”
References
[1] <https://マリウス.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg>
[2] <https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254#issuecomment-19918579>
[3] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021315>
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