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I like it. We need more specialization of services and less centralization. If Codeberg is the "human-made FOSS forge" then that means something when you see a project on it. If that's not your project, fine, there is plenty of competition (and Forgejo is open source just run it yourself).
Would be cool to see someone make a "vibehub" and then you know when you see a link to a project on there what you're getting (depending on your opinion, good or bad)
From what I understand from their blogpost, it was mostly about conserving their own resources, because a lot of the vibecoded projects they got were uploading insane amounts of binary releases and wasting resources on CI/CD while having no users or other collaborators.
They wanna reserve more server space for projects, that actually productively use it, like bigger FOSS projects with actual users and contributors.
That is perfectly understandable for me, even without taking my huge distaste for AI into consideration. Anyone that thinks, that this small, community funded project is obligated to host their huge slop repos semms pretty entitled to me.
I also think this was just about saving resources. Under the guise of licensing
Maybe not only, Codeberg have standards.
Honesty, I respect Codeberg for making a decision. No matter what they choose there would be pushback
Yeah I stopped putting anything on codeberg and finished moving to sourcehut after they announced this. I'm stuck with Github due to work but policing whatever random repos I have and want source control is a bit of a dick move.
I have a local forjejo which replicates certain repos to Codeberg and others to Github. Now I have to adjust my integration.
Frankly, I don't see where the whole big deal of this story is.
People who don't like codeberg can just go somewhere else (even back to github) and/or found/support an alternative that better suits their needs.
It's not like the world needs to have one git hosting service to rule them all, it's not like there must be free ones (entitled much?), and it's not like whatever service happens to be the new "cool" one must be neutral as to what they host.
BTW, although to my knowledge their policy is not enforced super-strictly, codeberg has never been neutral in this regard — see 1 and 2
People who don’t like codeberg can just go somewhere else
And Codeberg literally makes it easier for them, as you can just download or git clone Forgejo directly from them! When have we ever seen a breakup so amicable.
I'll just note that they can make whatever decision they want, its their platform, and considering its just forgejo underneath - you can always take it and host your own.
Also, I think it coincidentally lines up quite nicely with what we have here for posting an AI project now. Anything at that Generated stage is going to count as "mostly".
I find it disappointing that people are upset with codeberg over this.
Sometime in the last two years, the number of people consider themselves to be programmers has at least doubled. We have a giant contingent of people who have never gone through the hell of actually developing a skill but are now "developers" in much the same way that typing "make me a song like ______" now makes you a musician. No theory, no chords, no building of callouses, just load up our AutoPlagio and dance the night away!
And these sudden Developers and such are all very upset at having their legitimacy questioned by a bunch of... of... NERDS.
Its no different than when GarageBand was a thing - it was really accessible, so musicians who couldn't figure out the tech side before (or didn't want to pay money out for something) started using it heavily and really liked it. You also got an outsized influx of people who didn't understand music who created a whole bunch of stuff that had... issues. You'd see people ask for feedback, and get constructive criticism, and they would just get pissed off at the lack of praise.
Which led to every time someone newer posted something they made, a bunch of comments about how horrible it was that people were pumping out garbage with GarageBand. The scale was much smaller obviously, but the results are the same as now imo.
I think some will start to us LLMs as a tool to get answers (instead of a stackoverflow link that is marked duplicate and the old post is gone or uses horribly outdated libraries), some will get lost thinking they are geniuses with unique prompt mastery, and others will move on. Time will tell though.
Sometime in the last two years, the number of people consider themselves to be programmers has at least doubled.
As per usual, normies ruin everything.
Why are we posting this random tech bloggers whiny complaint again?
I said it before: Codeberg uses Forgejo which is FOSS. If you don't like Codeberg's decision: stop complaining, self-host Forgejo and lose nothing.
But fwiw, Fuck AI coding, not only for its unmaintainability but also for stealing of intellectual property.
I'll offer a comparison not yet mentioned in the context of hosting software, but which should sound familiar in the social media context: moderation is hard at scale.
By every metric of scale, Codeberg is a competitor to the behemoth that is GitHub. And that means they have to contend with tough choices, such as who and what to host on their servers, no different than BlueSky, Facebook, and the individual instances of the Fediverse. And to be clear, Codeberg has always been limited to FOSS projects anyway, so nobody can genuinely argue that limits weren't in the cards.
The distinction is that less alike Meta, and more alike with the Fediverse, Codeberg takes no hostages: people with obvious AI repos (or even marginal repos, given the possible ambiguity) are free to take their code and leave. Yes, they have to rebuild their CI pipelines, but that's always required for any platform, including self hosting.
The fact is that Codeberg is a centralized entity that needs to (try to) make consistent policy. In this case, they have a concern about copyright and nothing anyone says can magically dematerialize that risk. If their new policy is not agreeable, then decentralized self hosting is probably the only way forward. But that was always an option with ForgeJo and federation.
And indeed, folks moving from GitHub or elsewhere are not exactly without fair warning that they might have to migrate again; we've not reached a utopia yet.