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[-] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago

What happened? Why did github block them?

[-] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago

OrganicMaps GitHub repo was blocked due to contributor being geolocated in a US-sanctioned place https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370

[-] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago

๐ŸŽ‰ sometimes US sanctions actually do lead to positive outcomes :)

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

the world adapts :)

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wow, I read that in the completely wrong way for a sec and wondered, why you had 38 upvotes for promoting the banning of open source contributions from certain countries.

Btw. how do we get them to do that banning for the whole of EU? Asking for a friend.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Which sanctioned country? There are several of them.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that was my first guess, but I don't like to assume.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

I wasn't curious enough to look deeper.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Thank you. Would you mind explaining what this means please? What is a U.S.-sanctioned place? Why does the U.S. government think this is a bad thing?

contributor being geolocated in a US-sanctioned place

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago

US likes to impose arbitrary sanctions on its adversaries. Basically the US government decided that people from a particular country aren't allowed to collaborate with people using US based platforms like GitHub.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

What is a U.S.-sanctioned place? Why does the U.S. government think this is a bad thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_sanctions

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

The US has been punishing open source contributors from countries they don't like.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago

Was just about to post this before @[email protected] beat me to the punch. ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ‘

Why are so many projects still on Microsoft-owned github? They should follow OM's lead.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

No one goes for source unless they have recommendation or use it and it wouldn't matter in those cases where it is hosted.

Lot's use Github, but it doesn't matter. Lots hate Microsoft too.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh, outside Western sphere (including my coountry), there are a lot of tech entusiast that also a Microsoft "fans, "the same way Apple fans are exist.

Also, in my experience, despite I hate Microsoft, I found so many niche open source project that almost never in any English FOSS discussion. Especially, project that belongs to Indonesian, Chinese, or Japanese FOSS community. Example: video player with Japanese learning capabilities, video downloader for specific Chinese video hosting, or anime tracker with Chinese site as its database.

I wish FOSS community will provide alternative to social experience and recommendation like GitHub. With ActivityPub :)

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Github is basically social media but for tech nerds. Social media networks naturally monopolize, as they primarily have value because everyone else is already there. If you put your project on Github and it is popular you might get 2k "stars" and regular pull requests. If you put your project on an alternative you might get 10X less of both. So people make decisions about the trade-offs between exposure and avoiding Microsoft

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I think we all know this, but it's the exact same argument for Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn. Getting off centralized, corporate, for-profit cloud services should be a priority for anyone who is philosophically aligned with FOSS.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Organic Maps said not to blame this on Microsoft but rather on US law

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'll just go ahead and take the liberty of blaming both.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I think every other Us based company has to follow the same laws, as you'd expect tbh.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

Anything that follows the fascist US regime's laws should be boycotted. Congrats to OrganicMaps for ditching Github.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Iโ€™m out of the loop. Why did github โ€œblockโ€ Organic Maps?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

One of the contributors was in a country that the USA likes to bully with sanctions.

There is a comment on this post with a link to Mastodon for Organic Maps

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Thanks for posting this. I was able to get my obtanium source changed. Really annoying though. Fuck Microsoft!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Only issue is no federation support on forgejo. I know they are working and wish goodluck to them!! So excited

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

looks that way

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Today you need to be independent. I hope other projects will follow suit.

P.S. GitHub has announced a limit of 100,000 repositories per user or organization account. The limit will take effect on April 28.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Nice, looks like they are self hosting then?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Huh? What happens to my issue then?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Good stuff.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Downloading the app just because of this

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