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firloop 2 hours ago

They are not the first code hosting service to do so. sourcehut banned cryptocurrency in 2022:

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-10-31-tos-update-cryptocurre...

https://man.sr.ht/terms.md#permissible-use

Mostly positive HN discussion when this happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403780

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DaSHacka an hour ago | parent [-]

The difference is sourcehut has like 50 users

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mbreese an hour ago | parent [-]

And has a very vocal/opinionated owner. You know what you're getting with Sourcehut. (And I don't mean that in a bad way).

Rightly or wrongly, Codeberg had a different feel. For a while it felt like it was trying to be a refuge from Github. But then again, maybe that was projecting something on them that they didn't intend.

	▲	iamnothere an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Once again, the stability of a BDFL is vindicated. Democracy works ok in extremely complex systems like giant distros (Debian’s governance is slow but functional), but it seems to need guardrails around the process.