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by pwdisswordfish0 1286 days ago
It took a long time, but GitHub has finally (thankfully) shipped privacy settings that allow you to disable the way it broadcasts/publicizes your every move on your profile page. Does Codeberg or Gitea allow this yet? (They really should have been the first to do so...)

It would be nice to also disable the public listing of repositories for your profile page and to control it for organizations, too. (Not talking about private repos. Instead: these should be ordinary repos that remain accessible to anyone who has the link, but they are simply not aggregated into a single unified list that's available to anyone who clicks over to the "Repositories" tab. Think of them like unlisted YouTube videos, except they are all unlisted by default, rather than having to specifically designate each one as being unlisted—although that would work, too, it's just not the way it should be implemented.)

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Codeberg is not for private code, it's explicitly for "Free and Open Source Software". Probably it would still make sense to have some privacy for authors/contributors, so you can't simply list all activity by going to someones profile on the website, but the repositories should still be findable, browsable and public, as that's the goal of repositories in the organization Codeberg e.V.
It may be that there is an issue in the Gitea tracker. The Forgejo tracker is a clean slate, but you could request this at: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues
> allow you to disable the way it broadcasts/publicizes your every move on your profile page.

.. except from the owners of Github, and their paid clients ! you don't realize this?