This is a good thing. Crypto is 95% scams, and the remaining 5% just WAY too risky for the normal-joe. Overall, crypto (bitcoin specially) is just a useless energy consuming nightmare.

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hackinthebochs 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

While that's true, it's unrelated to hosting code. A reliable code hosting site should be agnostic to content. Once they start making editorial decisions about what projects to host, why should anyone trust them with their project?

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loeg 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I just fundamentally disagree that hosting sites should be agnostic to content.

Should they host malware? Anything related to CSAM? Clearly it is reasonable for them to exercise some editorial control, and this is not a crazy use of that power.

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iamnothere 4 hours ago | parent [-]

What about emulators? E2EE? P2P software? Software that gets used to leak state secrets? VPNs?

Once you open the door, it’s going to be really difficult to resist political pressure in other areas. The mob is easily swayed against new targets.

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loeg 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes? Every hosting provider should be considering what they want to host. Of course it's fine for providers to take some sort of speech maximalism stance if they want to, but it is also reasonable not to.

	▲	iamnothere 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So you think Codeberg should not host projects in the categories I listed? Or if you think they should, should they also provide guarantees to projects that the rules will not be suddenly changed, disrupting the project and community? If not, and you’re a developer, why would you want to host there?

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cute_boi 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The only good thing about crypto is we can send money easily to stupid countries without any hassle and crazy forex exchange. Other than that, i don't see any value in crypto.

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shikck200 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

We can send normal FIAT pretty much anywhere in the world, instantly. There might be some places that are truly out-of-reach, but at the same time, crypto is probably not working there neither as a) there i literally no computers and b) no way to use the crypto. So you end up exchanging crypto for fiat, and pay a high fee in the process.

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DaSHacka 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"The only good thing about crypto is using it for <entire reason crypto exists>"

Well, sounds like it is a successful technology.

	▲	hparadiz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That got a hearty laugh out of me.

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Cider9986 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Monero is digital cash and protects privacy, a human right.

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spaceman_2020 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can say the same for AI btw

There’s not a whole lot of utility to filling the world with slop

	▲	rvz 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> You can say the same for AI btw As it stands, AI has already surpassed the energy consumption of all cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, and is also burning the entire planet [0]. It is only going up due to the data center build out. [1][2] The cryptocurrency industry already found ways to migrate off of PoW to Proof-of-Stake so there exists an efficient alternative to reduce emissions. AI still does not and the hard requirement is to build more data centers to keep up with the scale, hence higher token prices, energy prices, electronics and water. [0] https://www.cell.com/joule/abstract/S2542-4351(25)00142-4 [1] https://ai2027-tracker.com/predictions/ai-power-consumption/ [2] https://www.aon.com/en/insights/articles/securing-power-glob...