[cmrdporcupine]

I've been on Codeberg for my projects since September but will pull them if this happens. I see no definition of what "mostly using AI" means and refuse to be "punished" for the choice of tooling I use. The tone and content of the thread on Mastodon is absolutely toxic.

I'd rather self-host than deal with the ambiguity and threats. Invariably from people who don't even make anything.

I have plenty of concerns around "AI" and project governance and IP law. My projects are copyleft, I'm in favour of free software, bleah bleah bleah.

But this just looks like pitchforks and mob behaviour.

[JudeHartman]

Same here. If this policy is actually implemented, I’ll move my projects elsewhere—perhaps to GitLab or a self-hosted solution. I certainly don’t want a hosting provider policing which development tools I can use.

[badsectoracula]

Same here, i've been on Codeberg since 2022 but if this passes, i'll most likely move my stuff elsewhere (my projects do not even have any AI code, i just dislike the idea of telling people what tools to use to make their own stuff).

I dislike GitHub and i'm using a shared host for my website which wouldn't let me install something like Forgejo (this is by choice as i don't want to bother with sysadmin stuff, my site is almost all static HTML with only a couple PHP scripts for some minor tasks). So i guess i'll be migrating to GitLab, even though i do not really like its UX. Or maybe i'll use some other Forgejo instance like CodeFloe. URLs aside, migrating between Forgejo instances should be easy.

[cmrdporcupine]

Yep. I have a self-hosted Gerrit instance that I was using for other more private stuff. I could in theory move over to there.

The downside is then having to worry about backups. But also lack of all the other "forge" things like issue tracking and so on. And lack of public exposure.

Frustrating, really. I felt welcome on Codeberg up until now. But that Mastodon thread is... wow.

[TheChaplain]

If I understand it correctly, their target is projects like the recent pgrust (PostgreSQL in rust) which are full conversions of projects that no-one else will ever use. It's just noise.

[cmrdporcupine]

Proposed language only says:

  7. You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as *Claude*, *OpenAI Codex*). 

Who defines "mostly"? And what's the definition of "written"? If I'm heavily prompting, curating, reviewing, and editing after the agent has gone through, is that somehow now "allowed?" Who makes the decision and how can I appeal?

Almost everything I write now has some agentic aspect to it, and I'm by far not the only one. That wasn't the case when I started my projects but it is now.

But I'm a software engineer with 25-30 years of experience and a computer nerd since 1979 when they wheeled the Apple II into my Grade 1 classroom. I'll reserve the right to decide what tooling I use to write my copylefted free software.

Given the Mastodon thread linked above I don't trust the people involved to be the judge jury and executioner. Insults flew freely and moral absolutism with it. I'll just pull my project off their infrastructure rather than be subject to their personal whims.