Fuck AI

Despite not owning a single project that falls into either banned category, I’m now going to look into setting up my own public Git host, and I’ll move off Codeberg only a few months after moving there, because of this.

Good.

Bye!

I don’t want to depend on a platform that rewrites its terms of service on a whim, without properly announcing that the change was even under consideration, and without giving its users a way to weigh in.

This is false, codeberg is a German non profit association that you can just join and then participate in that community and be part of the decision making process. YOU(/The author) didn't do that.

https://join.codeberg.org/

Lmao. Oh No! A non-profit has terms and conditions for the free service they're providing to you! Their community is actively making decisions on what to finance with the money!

This drama reminds me of the crocodile tears ai bros shed every time they are banned from art communities or conventions, as if they aren't contaminating every corner of the internet with their llm spam, they want it all.

I would mostly agree with this take... If codeberg weren't just a forgejo instance. If you don't like it, just create your own instance (which seems like they will do that)

It's literally healthier for the community to not let codeberg have a monopoly on that

Wow, awful awful take.

The counterargument against the 'team of one' argument codeberg made completely glosses over the argument that codeberg was making: that llm projects often include unnecessary tooling that requires more of codeberg's resources than their userbase really needs. The fact that one person projects have always existed does not address the argument, it is a complete red herring.

Their proposed solution is to create a for-profit section of codeberg so that vibe coders are still allowed while not costing brain users more. Why? Honestly why? Just go somewhere else at that point. Why should codeberg create a safe space for you?

The censorship thing is absolutely ridiculous too. Codeberg is not the government, terms of service that you consent to are not forcing censorship on anybody. That's a reactionary slop argument, and only serves to belittle and normalize the harm that actual censorship of science, art, political opinions, and book banning, that right wing governments like the US are causing today.

The process argument is just wrong too, and that's been addressed by others, but it's still such a weak argument anyways when the service is free and your level of involvement is entirely up to you.

A free-to-use platform has the right and freedom to define the criteria for its (continued) use. Underneath it all, someone does work on (and pay for) the infrastructure and maintenance, I don't see why they suddenly have 0 say in who they work for just because the enrollment is free.

Every free platform does this.

Otherwise, llmberg.org and coinberg.org are still available as I'm writing this.

LOL They didn't just do this as part of a whim, they talked and voted on the matter before implementing the policy. As a German nonprofit they don't act on whims, they first have discussions and then make decisions after talking with the community. LLMs produce slop which people are often careless with, it is good to reign that shit in, the same with crypto because of the impact these two things have on the environment. Personally, that makes Codeberg an ideal place for me to host my future code, it's safer than Github which is a curse on the world now that it's owned by Microsoft. Github has gotten worse over time, and I can't help but wonder when everyone flees that shithole for nicer places like Codeberg.

I think equating a quality gate that rejects LLM vibe coded repos with censorship is an argument made in bad faith and therefore earns a downvote.

You may disagree but at least on Lemmy, reputation isn’t tracked and downvotes don’t affect you

Crux:

I don’t hold particularly strong feelings about Codeberg banning projects that are predominantly LLM-driven, at least not feelings as strong as the ones I hold about the simultaneous ban of legitimate cryptocurrency projects, which reads as though it got lumped in for no reason other than that most people still remember the villain-du-jour that crypto was in the years before LLMs took that title.

Pasta la vista, baby!

Crypro projects are not a protected class. They don't have a right to service.

ngl banning LLMS is fair(and Huggingface also exists),Crypto mehh but if you really want Crypto projects why not self-host it or smth?? (i hope i have the context to the blog,i read some of it)