Didn't they terminate free API access? How does your client work?

> Play ball or get out.

People can say things on their way out, and this is what's happening.

Then instead of addressing the excessive resource usage problem indirectly via banning AI-assisted apps, they could've addressed it directly by imposing limits/quotas.

It's abundantly clear (and not that they are hiding it either) that their issue is with AI itself so anything else is just a secondary concern if not even a smokescreen.

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> I'm a solo dev, and I couldn't find the judgement against solo developers or any slight against people who don't have a team.

Quoting their blogpost [0]:

> ## The development team of none

> Using LLMs to work with your code gives you a kick of adrenaline. You can develop at a rapid pace, build things as if you had a large team. Only that you have none. In fact, you are (often) alone, working with a statistical machine that turns energy into code.

I couldn't care less about what they think about solo developers, but it's just one bad excuse after another and that's what people are criticising. Open Source is one person. [1]

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[0] https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-...

[1] https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/

Was that actually the subject of the email? If so that's nuts.

I think Codeberg was never intended for one-off individual projects in the first place, such as them discouraging private repositories. Quoting their Terms of Use [0]:

> Private repositories are only allowed for things required for FLOSS projects, like storing secrets, team-internal discussions or hiding projects from the public until they're ready for usage and/or contribution. [...]

And this makes a ton of sense, because Codeberg is a community-funded volunteer-supported non-profit, and it doesn't make sense to spend their resources for repositories that don't benefit the public.

I think "legitimate contributor community" is just an excuse so I am not going to dwell on it. From Ghostty to Redis, rsync to Linux kernel, more and more FOSS projects are taking advantage of various AI tools in a responsible manner and closing the door on them is just unfortunate and backward in my opinion. We gain nothing from this change and lose a ton of progress in software freedom and digital commons.

> It's not all that different from Mastodon instances. It's a community space, and the community gets to decide who they allow to use their resources.

Of course, and the bigger community gets to discuss their decision. :)

[0] https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/TermsOfUse...

This is the relevant part in Codeberg's Terms of Use: [0]

> You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5).

The only ambiguous part is what "mostly" means in practice, but otherwise the Terms of Use is pretty clear. I'll admit that their blog post [1] is more inclusive and tries to clarify things but it's all just one very unnecessary drama [2].

[0] https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/TermsOfUse...

[1] https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-...

[2] The proposal for this change was called "ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions" so you can tell that some people are very opinionated on this.

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And this does exist! See confluence by anacrolix:

https://github.com/anacrolix/confluence

You can use fuse-btfs [0] for mounting torrents as filesystems! Last I checked it was a fairly mature piece of software so hopefully it doesn’t feel unnatural.

[0] https://github.com/johang/btfs

edit: Not opposed to the idea, just curious what makes you pick IPFS over the existing alternatives.

[0] https://freeread.org/ipfs.html

[1] https://badbits.dwebops.pub/

https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

I’m not talking about technology demos such as Wikipedia-on-IPFS (which indeed worked and was impressive) but where IPFS is actually being relied on for some functionality.

https://doh.lvv.me/

That’s what I’ve been using for years and never had any issues with public hotspots.