Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

fishgoesblub

Let this be a reminder to never trust any service be it one ran by a billion dollar company, to one ran by volunteers. You will be eventually screwed over. Make backup plans, and self-host whatever you can so nothing can be taken from you. For Git forges, I personally recommend Gitea[1], or Forgejo[2] (a Gitea fork by Codeberg) [1]: https://about.gitea.com/ [2]: https://forgejo.org/

Heliodex

I get "Access denied" when trying to access. Can anyone archive? Edit: https://web.archive.org/web/20260723015826/https://codeberg.... Unrelatedly, I can recommend Radicle, which hosts a growing network of crypto projects. https://radicle.dev/

danpalmer

Why? Banning abuse is fine, and disliking Cryptocurrency projects at a moral level is fine, but running a coffee hosting service and putting your moral judgements on projects like this just seems childish and unserious. I'm also apparently banned from reading the article, despite having no previous usage of Codeberg or any history with the project, so I can't even see their reasoning.

OuterVale

Personally this makes me glad I moved to Tangled rather than Codeberg. I don't know how this will be enforced, but I'd be scared of similar things happening in the future to something I'm working on and all the strife that could come with the sudden removal. For example, what would happen if they were to decide to ban Ruby On Rails projects because of DHH's fascist actions? I'm not sure I love the precedent this sets.

andunie

Didn't they do this a while ago already?

badatnames

Alternative git hosting truly is a cottage industry of terrible ideas

firloop

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

JuniperMesos

The fact that Codeberg has the power to do this is a good reason not to host your code on Codeberg. The fact that they have ideological commitments that make them think banning cryptocurrency projects is a good idea is a separate good reason not to host your code on Codeberg. Fortunately Codeberg is a relatively small player and Git forge hosting is fairly competitive and among the easiest types of online service to self-host, so the effect of this on most Git-forge-users is pretty minimal.

letmevoteplease

Looks like another project that's gonna purity spiral into People's Front of Judea vs. the Judean People's Front weirdos sniping at each other.

minimaxir

Relatedly, Codeberg has also banned vibe-coded projects. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003386 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003465

wewewedxfgdf

Vision of the future for this platform, because all overreach makes companies more hungry for more overreach.

tapoxi

I don't like crypto but this is poor reasoning, hastily implemented, and given very little time for discussion. There does not seem to be any concrete plan for notifying impacted projects or giving them a roadmap to migrate. This is unprofessional and severely harms their credibility. It's not what was done but how they did it, and I don't doubt that subsequent policy changes can and will be implemented in the same manner unless it's addressed.

add-sub-mul-div

It's a shame that such a film of commercial and criminal slime surrounds big new technologies like crypto/AI that could otherwise be used for net good. But this is where we're at.

ninjahawk1

This is a battle that likely shouldn’t be handled as a war on crypto, simply change the wording of your TOS. Absolutely nuclear.

Lerc

I'm not sure how this interacts with open source principles. I think they are free to do whatever they want with their own website and indeed with open source tooling, but as a host for open source it could conceivably conflict with those principles. A much debated aspect of open source is that it may be used for any purpose. The JSON licence sparked much of this debate. More recently there has been suggestions for an ethical source movement, which advocate that source may only be used for ethical uses. I presume they must mean Good old christian, pro family, anti-terrorism, traditional values etc. the usual ten commandments stuff. Or perhaps they had something else in mind, it's unclear, but what ever it is that's the stuff that's allowed and the other stuff isn't.

trentor

As with the AI ban this was a community decision done by a majority vote. It seems that most people commenting or writing articles in the last few days don't have a Codeberg account or never visit the forum.

lifthrasiir

This follows what SourceHut did in 2022 [1], but I think SourceHut did much better job to announce that (as of this writing). [1] https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-10-31-tos-update-cryptocurre...

yieldcrv

Who? > “ Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects.” Github still works, and the crypto ecosystem also has arweave and many others for static assets

ares623

This is an interesting development. I think for the forseeable future, more and more people (who run and/or own products or platforms like Codeberg) will continue to be more selective on what they accept on their platforms. The software we write has been increasingly shown that they are not some unassailable paragon of neutrality and mere harmless artifacts. These things are written by people with intent. Naturally the other set of people who run these platforms would have objections on hosting them. "Invevitability" gets thrown around these days. I guess this is the other kind of inevitability that comes from the environment we've created.

qiqitori

Can we also ban Java projects? Don't really like that language.