> It's not all that different from Mastodon instances. It's a community space, and the community gets to decide who they allow to use their resources. Personally, I have a group of friends who share a GitLab instance, for example.

I think it's a bad example since your private GitLab instance wasn't all over the HN earlier screaming "are you tired of Github outages and Microslop breaking it every day? Migrate all your shit to Codeberg, the good guys of the internet" only to later pull the rug like this.

Private stuff is cool and there's place for it. Codeberg was actively positioned as an indie almost drop-in Github alternative and it's currently failing miserably at this.

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debugnik 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I swear HN has some sort of Mandela effect about Codeberg's mission. Their website clearly states they're a community-led non-profit that hosts like-minded FOSS projects, and their FAQ directly asks you to host private repos somewhere else.

Yet the amount of comments in this site proposing them as a GitHub alternative for individuals and companies, and suggesting them to move their repos there is absurd, and not enough people correct them.

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InsideOutSanta 20 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm genuinely confused by how often people make up something in their mind, get upset about it, and then angrily post an attack on the thing they made up in their mind. How does that happen? Aren't there enough upsetting real-world things already?

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embedding-shape 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Codeberg was actively positioned as an indie almost drop-in Github alternative

What on earth are you talking about? No one, no less Codeberg themselves, would make up such fictitious comparison.

The terms and conditions second point is "Allowed Content & Usage", and has been for a good 4 years, no one who's part of the organization would say it's a "drop-in GitHub alternative". It's not a "anything goes" git host either.

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bhelkey 13 hours ago | parent [-]

>> Codeberg was actively positioned as an indie almost drop-in Github alternative

> What on earth are you talking about? No one, no less Codeberg themselves, would make up such fictitious comparison.

Codeberg's getting started documentation has the line, "Codeberg is not a for-profit corporation but an open community of free software enthusiasts providing a humane, non-commercial and privacy-friendly alternative to commercial services such as GitHub." [1]

[1] https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/what-is-codeberg/

	▲	simoncion 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Nothing in that quote suggests that it's an "almost drop-in" replacement for Github. As an illustrative example: Proton is an alternative to Microsoft Windows, but it is not a drop-in replacement.

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anticorporate 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Can you point me at the posts where Codeberg was suggesting this? I just ran a quick search of Codeberg-related HN posts from the last year, and while there are some instances of "why I moved my stuff to Codeberg" I wasn't able to find anything from the platform begging people to move. I believe you there could be examples, but that doesn't seem to be representative of the discussion.

At a macro level, this is always going to be a struggle for projects that are an alternative to enshittified corporate services. Hosting costs money. It seems like the real solution here is to work on the problem of federation between forges.