Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces
We stay strong against hate and hatred — Codeberg News
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32660327
what's the point in attacking a source control website anyways?
It's probably to make minorities feel unsafe, even in their own spaces.
Well the open source crowd is probably one of the most diverse communities in so many ways.
Everything from wife-killers, toenail-eaters, to geniuses that rolled a one in social skills. From Mexico, to Israel, to Indonesia. From a kid in the library who can't afford a computer, to millionaires running a data centre in their basement.
Diversity is one-third of DEI, which currently is public enemy number one. So here we are..
Classic case of coop the resistance by introducing completely different talking points.
FOSS is not left or right, it's FOSS. Those trying to change it to something else is trying to coop it.
There is no controversy. The blue vs red lens does not make sense in this context.
Sharing your work without cost to people who need it is pretty solidly left. But it certainly isn't red vs blue, not least because party political colors vary by country and in the US, neither refers to a left-wing party, and in most countries red aligns with left.
FOSS is political. Sure, there are right wingers in FOSS projects, but the nature of it is leftist.
Codeberg is one of the best websites on the Internet right now. This blog update of theirs doubly confirms it for me.
I've never heard of codeberg. Can someone explain what it is, briefly?
Edit: I love being downvoted for asking a simple question. I thought I left reddit to get away from these twits.
The other answers are right, just explaining in simpler language in case anyone needs it:
Codeberg, like Gitlab and Github, is a site for hosting and managing code repositories. These make it easy for many people to collaborate on a software project, review code, keep track of changes and history, keep track of bugs and feature requests, and more.
Here's an example of a (very active) code project to explore: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity (An audio editor based on Audacity)
The most famous code repo management tool, GitHub, was bought by Microsoft a few years ago, so reliable community-run alternatives like Codeberg are increasingly important.
Thanks!
It's a code forge like Github or Gitlab. It uses open source technology on its backend and is often used by FOSS/privacy-minded projects.
It's a thing for people to share git repositories and see the diffs and send changes. Common alternatives are gitlab and github. Codeberg is a fork community maintained after the original owners started to be weird and doing stuff that people didn't like. It's written in Go language. Small and fast for people to deploy themselves and maintain, in complete opposite from the common alternative people used gitlab which is a huge pain to self host and needs enormous resources.
Turn off downvotes so you don’t have to care
Can confirm, just got phishing mail "from Codeberg" containing the n word in its subject (?)
Not necessarily a phishing mail. I got tagged in an issue that some idiot created and codeberg dutifully sent me a mail notification.
Same here. Such a jarring and upsetting way to start a morning
me too, but hopefully the issue is now fixed and those assholes kept banned
Same. Was very confusing.
I woke up to an email saying ni***r balls lol
Same! Very confusing thing first thing in the morning
Issue #1113 by any chance? :D
Issue 572 xd
Did you subscribe to the "ni***r balls" newsletter?
Same
Did Codeberg do something/take some stance to attract the attention of the far right? It feels like such an arbitrary target?
From what I gather, I don't think it's about any stance from Codeberg in general, it seems they are attacking "several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights" in particular. They just happen to be hosted in Codeberg.
That’s a great response. Makes me really respect the people who run Codeberg.
I'm not so sure it was an organized attack or rather a 12 year old kid who found out a stupid way of accomplishing a stupid thing.
I don't know if there were other things done, but those 2 words I've read are more like 2 words a non-native kid would use rather than a far right manifesto, AFAIK, 😅
Got the tag email last night. The user was named @truth and all I had was an email titled "N***er Balls".
Same. Thrice
I was wondering why I randomly received two emails that looked like spam from them, I originally thought they got hacked or something.
If you didn't get the emails, they had the n-word in the title and contained a list of seemingly random users. It looked like what they did was create a fake project named "truth" and I'm guessing they had a bot create a bunch of fake issues for that project that just contained user names that the bot scraped from the website.
@vortexal @opensource @RmDebArc5 I got the same emails - and sine I was curious I opened the URL (after carefully checking that it really pointed to codeberg). And I was really impressed that the @Codeberg team obvviously already reacted and removed the project. Thanks for talking care!
so interested in what the “several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights” were, do we know?
Got one of those and not even sure I have a codeberg account.
ok there was that time I left a comment on a librewolf issue
Apparently it's feeling the Lemmy hug of death: https://archive.is/Z9Udy
Codeberg seems to be down atm. I hope they aren't under an even bigger attack
Yeah, they were definitely down again: https://lemmy.today/post/23792488
And they definitely got spammed again.
I think that’s just you, it works fine for me
Hmm, might be. Up again now anyways, lasted for ~5 minutes
How can we help?
This kind of gave me a rally around the flag effect so I left a 10 USD donation.
I was thinking about building an explicitly socialist project on there so I hope it will compensate for maybe risking increasing said far-right attention in the future.
Is the term "far-right" used to mean anyone who doesn't obey marching orders and won't conform to opinions of others?
No, it's used to mean anyone who's extremely likely to obey marching orders, dancing orders, camping orders, attack orders (jan 6th on USA, jan 8th on Brazil) and conform to the opinions of their masters
Literally the opposite.
After the French Revolution, parliament was arranged so that the people who supported democracy and freedom literally sat on the left hand side; and all of the freeloading, self serving, bootlicking monarchists that wanted to return to rule by a king or queen sat on the right hand side.
Far right are that but more extreme. They don't just lick boots but also the assholes of the politicians and billionaires that they worship like gods.
No, it means "reactionary." Expand your vocabulary.
No, anarchists are in the left.
Yes, anarchists are leftists. I am asking about the context that people use the term "far right" as a collective insult. The common theme I see is it seems people are labelled "far right" as a tactic by those who live through the internet and not outside shaking hands with new people, done as tactic online to prevent anyone speaking bluntly that is not terrified of words, or disagreements and objections.
Wrong social network bub. You might be looking for gab.
If the far-right hates Codeberg, that only tells me Codeberg is doing something right.
Well left but yes
The Message clearly stated that it was far-right, not left.