@aral@mastodon.ar.al @Codeberg
J'aime bien #codeberg et je crois en ce projet ou j'ai migré mes travaux mais franchement le traitement de cet incident est catastrophique. Il y a eu un problème soumis clairement sans animosité ni volonté de nuire au projet, vous l'avez réglé merci c'est super point barre !
Pas la peine de rajouter une couche de communication désastreuse visant à avertir et mettre en garde @aral ... En aucun cas le post de aral en question nuit à votre réputation mais votre communication oui !

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@Codeberg I just received this email, titled “Your recent Mastodon post” from @dpk on behalf of the Codeberg “Presidium”:

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Dear Aral Balkan

In your Mastodon post at <https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117041803584140945> you publically criticized a repository that was hosted on Codeberg, despite linking to an issue thread in which it was made clear that the content should be reported through our usual internal channels for moderation. The repository in question was reviewed by the moderation team and removed. We understand that you suffered reputational damage as a result of this repository’s content, but this does not justify damaging the reputation of Codeberg e.V. in turn. The moderation team is still a volunteer operation and sometimes it takes a few hours for someone to be available to deal with reports or to ensure that consensus exists.

We therefore warn you not to make posts of this kind that could damage the association’s reputation in future. Acting against the interests of the association can be grounds for exclusion from the membership (§5 (5) of the by-laws). If you have issues with content posted on our site in future, please report it to our moderation team at abuse@codeberg.org. In general, reports sent to that email address will usually receive a reply describing what action was taken once the moderation team has considered how to deal with the reported content.

Kind regards
Presidium
***

So, I have a problem with this.

My post in no way damaged the reputation of Codeberg. It publicly asked them to do something about it and to state, publicly, where they stand on an issue. An issue, may I add, that has to do with real people facing actual genocide as we speak. Not to mention I thanked them for making the right decision (https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117043586669877395). If anything, until this email, it made the organisation look better. Unless, of course, opposing certain genocides is something that damages reputations in Germany.

I do not agree with the public issue being closed either. An issue was reported and the response was not “oh, this is serious, we’ll look into it”. It was, rather, “you reported it wrong. Report the same thing at this other place instead.”

And that other place is an entirely opaque internal system where no one gets to see what decision-making process is employed.

This is not the transparency that should exist in a member-run organisation.

So at the end of the day, I am the one being threatened with being removed from membership while the person who is actively trying to harm genocide victims (https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/) is still welcome on Codeberg?

This is a very insidious form of bothsidesism and, I can only imagine, is to ensure that I keep quiet in the future and to create a chilling effect where we cannot discuss certain things publicly for fear of reprisals.

Well, that won’t be happening.

I am sick and tired of people who cannot provide a proportional response when asked to choose between people harming genocide victims on the one hand and those trying to protect them on the other.

If this means I cannot be a member of Codeberg, so be it.

Let me know if I’m not welcome there and I will leave.

And you can show the world that Linux-Is-Best is welcome and I am not. If that’s who you are.

#codeberg #israel #germany #zionism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #fediverse #mastodon #transparency #ethics #morals

It appears that Linux-Is-Best’s libellous blocklist of “Gaza Verified scam accounts” has been removed from Codeberg.

I appreciate your taking action @Codeberg; thank you.

#Gaza #GazaVerified #genocide #libel #LinuxIsBest #fediverse #mastodon #Codeberg

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117036096486689894

Dear @Codeberg,

According to the anonymous Linux-Is-Best account, I am a scammer and Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org), which I made and help run, is a scam, and every person from Gaza we verified using video calls – all 303 of them, by last count¹ – is also a scammer.

(Please see: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/2971)

This presents a problem because I am also a part of the Codeberg organisation as an active member with voting rights.

And the Gaza Verified source code is hosted on Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/small-web/gaza-verified.org

(We’re clearly a very transparent scam operation that believes in FOSS, etc.)

So, if Linux-Is-Best is right, you are harbouring a known scammer in your organisation. Furthermore, by allowing the source code of the scam on your site, you could be held liable if you know of the scam but do nothing about it.

So, please:

1. Either remove me as an active member (and give me notice so I can cancel my direct debit and have time to migrate my account and projects elsewhere), or

2. Take down the libellous claims by this anonymous troll who is causing real harm to people facing genocide in Gaza (and who is thus, himself, complicit in genocide).

So I’m either a scammer and I should not be allowed to be part of the Codeberg organisation or the anonymous Linux-Is-Best is a libellous, genocide-complicit troll and should not be welcome at Codeberg. Because both of these cannot be true at the same time.

I’ll leave it to you to decide who you would rather want associated with Codeberg.

It shouldn’t be a very difficult decision to make.

¹ https://gaza-verified.org/people/

#Gaza #GazaVerified #genocide #libel #LinuxIsBest #fediverse #mastodon #Codeberg

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Aral Balkan » 🌐 2026-08-04
@aral@mastodon.ar.al

Dear @Codeberg,

As an active member, I’d like to know what action will be taken against LinuxIsBest – the person mentioned below – and his account.

He is using Codeberg to spread Zionist lies about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org) and attempting to get people to mass block verified accounts of people on the fediverse facing genocide in Gaza at the hands of Israel.

As an anti-fascist organisation, I can only assume this goes against what we hold to be acceptable behaviour on our platform.

Thank you.

#genocide #Israel #zionism #hasbara #Gaza #GazaVerified #codeberg @katzenberger https://tldr.nettime.org/@katzenberger/117032929588578289

Dear @Codeberg,

As an active member, I’d like to know what action will be taken against LinuxIsBest – the person mentioned below – and his account.

He is using Codeberg to spread Zionist lies about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org) and attempting to get people to mass block verified accounts of people on the fediverse facing genocide in Gaza at the hands of Israel.

As an anti-fascist organisation, I can only assume this goes against what we hold to be acceptable behaviour on our platform.

Thank you.

#genocide #Israel #zionism #hasbara #Gaza #GazaVerified #codeberg @katzenberger https://tldr.nettime.org/@katzenberger/117032929588578289

I'm thinking of creating a small (they always start small) tool to help submitting pull requests via #AGit to the #Codeberg mirrors of #Gentoo repositories.

Guess how I'm going to call it.

(I'm sorry for spoiling it on IRC already.)

#NamingIsMyPassion

Today is not a good day for #Codeberg. Monitoring @codebergstatus and Pages and CI are down all day. Pages at 42% 24hr availability, while the forge website itself is up down, up down. Wonder what is happening.

I like how slop bros cannot help themselves and make sure their project descriptions mention vibe-coding in every other sentence.

Fantastic way to know what software to avoid.

Also strong 7-year-old-who-just-discovered-plasticine vibes. Everything has to be made with plasticine, the whole house is smeared in plasticine, but the adults in the room have to pretend this is great (while being careful to remove plasticine cutlery from the dishwasher) – otherwise the kid throws a tantrum.

#Codeberg

#Codeberg Bans #Cryptocurrency and #LLM-Generated Code Projects

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/07/27/1842211/codeberg-bans-cryptocurrency-and-llm-generated-code-projects

#FOSS #crypto #AI

I moved the #HolosSocial projects (app, relay and discover, to stay consistent) to my own git at https://git.holos.social/tom79

As a reminder about this choice: I used an AI to write part of the #Holos docs, and also to review and help me fix some code I had written. At first I didn't feel concerned by the debate (no vibe coding on my side), but it went further than that. Out of respect for everyone using my work, transparency and action were needed.

#Fedilab isn't affected and stays on #Codeberg.

Because of recent ToS of #codeberg, I have to write few words.

I am from Iran. For years, we've been blocked by the US sanctions. These sanctions didn't hurt the regime much. But it does hurt me people greatly. The US isn't shy about doing whatever they want with other nations for their benefits or in the name of fighting terrorism.

#cryptocurrency has been a way for us to trade with parties abroad without any government, America or our own, being able to censor the money transfer.

Imagine, if one day the US government puts a sanction on the whole Europe, what will citizens of each side could do?

That's the power the traditional money system gives to the governments. If a US citizen wants to give me money for a job, or vice versa, what right does our governments have to prevent us from doing so? Why the governments have to interfere with every single thing their citizen does?

#Iran #US #IranWar #crypto #bitcoincash #bch #foss #USsanctions #USsanction #sanction #freedom #digitalfreedom #financialfreedom

Now switched to YAM Launcher, which is both lighter and more featureful (but still wonderfully minimalist).

My new litmus test for browsing #FDroid is to see whether the app is hosted on #CodeBerg or not. 😁

P.S., it's slop, dadgummit. https://codeberg.org/thomasboom/YAM-Launcher/src/branch/main/AGENTS.md

Alt...

A screenshot of a very simple Android launcher with built-in time/date and weather "widgets" and 10 application names running down the middle: Gallery Phone Messages Signal Element X GroupMe CoMaps GMaps WV AntennaPod Booming Music

And this "entitled prospective user" attitude. "I was planning on moving my projects to #Codeberg, but now I won't". Oh, how sad that you won't give them the benefit of using their free services (okay, I'm sure you were going to donate).

Reminds me of the "entitled prospective contributor" attitude in #Gentoo. "You never heard from me before, but I don't like this new policy. There are dozens of new contributors with me, just around the corner, and now we won't be able to contribute." (This was about the copyright policy, so they could have contributed noncontroversially for a long time, yet they never did.)

#NoAI #NoLLM

So #Debian is proposing a policy similar to #Codeberg with regard to LLMs (Large Language Models). Interesting.

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

#Codeberg and Codeberg Pages are down, see @codebergstatus

I wouldn't be surprised if this was caused by people being salty on the new ToS that was recently adopted.

I co-proposed/wrote the #Codeberg vibe-coding ban and all I got was a lot of haters in my mentions.

And a nearly 70% approval rate, with one of the highest voter turnouts the association had afaik (and one that's comparable to the last EU elections). 😎

@jpmens

Oh, that is a very nice project. The other day I learned that #Forgejo will get native Gists support, a feature I suggested to #Codeberg 5 years ago..

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/382#issuecomment-19747559

@michael

For the #ActivityPub and #ForgeFed implementation the #Forgejo contrib organization on #Codeberg has a separate repository and a roadmap they keep up-to-date. See:

https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/main/FederationRoadmap.md

RE: https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/116817937520691251

The #HolosSocial relay is now ready for an official prod release. Users might have noticed better responsiveness from it.

The app is already available on #AltStore for iOS, and will be on the #PALStore. It is available with the apk, ipa and all the desktop files on the website and #Codeberg. It is also on #FDroid, but releases are stuck on 1.8.1, which I will fix.

Publishing on the big stores like Google Play or the App Store is not my goal.

What do you think?

Holos Social » 🌐 2026-06-26
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social

#Holos 1.11.0 is available.

You can now view and change your email and password from a new account screen in settings. The app also compacts its database automatically in the background to reclaim space and keep things fast, and a notification lets you know when it runs. A new Compact Database button in the cleanup settings lets you run it on demand.
It also brings several fixes.

Release notes: https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/releases/tag/1.11.0

#HolosSocial

The #HolosSocial relay is now stable enough to be tagged and published in production.

If you're interested, there is an interactive installation script and full documentation to do all the steps yourself with Docker on the #Codeberg project.

Running a relay is not like running an instance. They provide infrastructure. People with custom domains and Cloud for their media don't depend on a relay to keep their account. That's the whole purpose of this project, owning an #ActivityPub identity.

#Codeberg Pages is down for at least an hour now. Check @codebergstatus for the latest information.

https://status.codeberg.eu/status/codeberg

Forgejo: https://forgejo.org ...

"Forgejo is a Free Software platform for collaboration and productivity in software development. It offers a familiar environment to GitHub users, easy installation and maintenance, and a focus on security, scaling, federation and privacy."

... codeberg has a nice setup (via forgejo) if you don't want to self-host.

#git #forgejo #scm #vcs #sources #source #code #vps #gitlab #github #codeberg #hosting