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It's impossible to develop open source software without having a credit/debit card and cell phone present. Feels more like a scam to me than not but I understand it from an operator's perspective; you have to prevent fraud. From a contributor's perspective who had their life derailed for more than a year, it's a pain to get everything back up and running as it was before.

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I don't think I needed a credit card or cell phone to register with codeberg. I did need an email address.

In theory if we wanted to be very inclusive we could do things based on web of trust or P2P tech or in-person sneakernet. It'd be fun, but it'd be slow.

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I'm writing this from a DevOps perspective. I suppose branding all OSS as "impossible to develop without credit/debit card and cell phone" isn't in good taste on my part from a more generalized perspective.

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> It's impossible to develop open source software without having a credit/debit card and cell phone present.

This is absolutely not true