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This post is stupid. The whole reason they are blocked is because Russia invaded ukraine, so the US sanctioned them, so Russian developers can't use Github, not because "microsoft bad" (true but irrelevant in this case) but because Microsoft is legally obligated to block them.

Fuck russia. Honestly this post makes Microsoft, Github and USA look good, and Organic Maps look bad. Organic maps should ban russian developers from contributing.

Honestly after this post I will avoid Organic maps. More like genocide-complicit maps amirite.

This is great. Now I can submit issues easier and look into contribution. Storing projects on Github is awful. The signup process is a mess.

There is some serious crapitalist hate for organic maps. I never heard of it util is was taken off the play store for a bit. I side loaded it that day.

https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370

Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?

Nice!

I actually recently set up my own Forgejo instance, and it's remarkably similar to GitHub, to the point where they share Github's "actions" code.

Congrats! More hosting diversity is a good thing.

can someone make a quick intro to what happends for microsoft to block organicmaps account ?

So wait.

GitHub is Microsoft?

EDIT: Okay, fuck that. I was just getting all set up there but not now.

I am trying to decide between PyCharm and VS Code for my Python IDE. I was leaning toward VS Code, but they're Microsoft too, aren't they?

Who could have ever anticipated Git hub going to shoot after Microsoft bought it

I always kept telling Free-software & OpenSource projects/developers to move to GitLab, Codeberg or SourceHut

You cannot fight capitalists on a capitalists platform.

& if you want something that's even more independent try Fossil