Why I Regret Migrating to Codeberg After New Censorship Rules

Why I Regret Migrating to Codeberg After New Censorship Rules

I left GitHub to escape Microsoft's enshittification and found a free alternative in Codeberg. However, their new terms banning LLM and cryptocurrency projects feel like censorship disguised as reputation management. The platform's conflation of community with legitimacy and its ideological stance on what software deserves hosting worry me more than the specific bans themselves.

Once a platform writes into its terms that an entire category harms its reputation and can be removed on that basis, the deciding factor stops being whether the code is legal, or functional, or useful, and becomes whether it aligns with a position the platform has taken.

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