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Stop using gitlab.com for projects - Credit card info required for new registrations (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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If your IP (and possible your browser) looks "suspicious" or has been used by other users before, you need to add additional information for registration on gitlab.com, which includes your mobile phone number and possibly credit card information. Since it is not possible to contribute or even report issues on open source projects without doing so, I do not think any open source project should use this service until they change that.

Screenshot: https://i.ibb.co/XsfcfHf/gitlab.png

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[–] 47 points 2 years ago (3 children)

https://codeberg.org/

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  • [+] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Wait. Wtf does it need to be US specifically? So the goverment has full access to the data or what?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Export controls or legal compliance, most likely. Export controls because the code may be a protected technology, or compliance because the company doesn't have gdpr or some other legal framework.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What's your experience like with this? I'm seriously considering Gitlab & Github alternative.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    Codeberg the community is very nice with strong focus on the right to privacy and free software, which I feel reflects itself especially in a lot of copylefted projects on the service.

    Codeberg the collaboration platform is in my epxerience by the simple fact of critical mass quite a bit less 'collaborative' for many projects. There's a couple projects with tight communities, and a lot of single dev projects with maybe a drive-by PR.

    Codeberg the software runs on Gitea (/Forgejo) which is wonderful software - slim, simple enough to get everything done without being in the way.

    There's efforts to open up the gitea/forgejo forges to federation, which would be a very neat way to fix the collaboration issue and is - in my view - the way forward for open, decentralized collaborative software creation. It's still quite a ways off (especially from bring mature enough to be used day-to-day) but when it gets there platforms like codeberg will be the first to adopt it and to also benefit massively from it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I don't use codeberg much, but I have my own instance of Forgejo so I'm using the same software. My experience is that it's really nice. The feeling is one of having what you need and no bloat.

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