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Comment by GaryBluto | Hacker News Reader

I lost what little respect I had for Codeberg when they tried to spin a teenager exploiting an opportunity to spam/troll[1] that GitHub had solved several years prior[2] into "hate campaigns from far-right forces" that "endanger free/libre software projects" so they could toot their own horn at how good they were in the face of adversity[3] (and generally have a good moan about the right-wing) instead of admitting they should've seen this coming and prevented it happening in the first place.

[1] https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/1786

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061

[3] https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-ha...

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> Running CI/CD pipelines can use significant amounts of energy. As much as it is tempting to have green checkmarks everywhere, running the jobs costs real money and has environmental costs.

> Unlike other giant platforms, we do not encourage you to write “heavy” pipelines and charge you for the cost later. We expect you to carefully consider the costs and benefits from your pipelines and reduce CI/CD usage to a minimum amount necessary to guarantee consistent quality for your projects.

So much pretentiousness

This seems to have been written in good spirit, addressing FLOSS maintainers.

If they were genuinely just attempting to "troll" by spamming (which is a pretty lame thing to do to begin with), they wouldn't have had to use a racist slur in their message. The fact they did makes their intent pretty clear.

If a project taking a stance against people spamming the n-word makes you lose respect for them, that says a lot more about you than the project.

Do you really think a teenage internet troll who wants to offend as many people as possible would stop and think "You know what, I sure do love pissing people off but I draw the line at 'NIGGER BALLS'"?

> If a project taking a stance against people spamming the n-word makes you lose respect for them, that says a lot more about you than the project.

They weren't "taking a stance" against spam, they were claiming that FOSS itself was in danger due to a non-existent far-right campaign against them.

Trolling is trying to piss off as many people as possible, using such a word achieved exactly that.

Why should Codeberg be held to a higher standard than GitHub?

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