@davidgerard There is a kind of _voice_ to these comments which is very familiar. They got shown the door, and they're mad they are no longer allowed into the place they paid nothing for, left a mess in, and have no right to demand anything from. Oozing entitlement.

@davidgerard oh, i remember this blog!

it's full of boring meandering prose written by a genius who's definitely right and absolutely not a stereotypical libertarian!

it's so interesting that i keep forgetting any specifics when i close the tab.

@davidgerard love the answer by analogy to "why should I trust Codeberg as the stewards of Forgejo?": «Linus won't let me post erotic Sonic fanfiction to the mailing list, but I still trust Linux to be a safe platform to write erotic Sonic fanfiction.» 😅

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I really like this comment because it applies to so many things:

> If 9 people eat an apple or two a day but a tenth person wants to eat 100 apples a day, we don't have to set some apple limit. We can tell the tenth person to pound sand and keep giving everyone else the apples they want.

@davidgerard they seem genuinely shocked that a voluntary association would assert their right of free association to exclude certain uses and users

@davidgerard from the original post: "A change to the terms of service could have required authors to tick a checkbox declaring that a repository contains LLM-generated code, or is cryptocurrency-related, and those repositories could then be segmented onto a separate tier of infrastructure that doesn’t get the same resources as everyone else."

no way in hell they'd be okay with this they'd definitely be talking about how this is just like racial segregation or holocaust stars

@davidgerard "Why shouldn't you? Linus won't let me post erotic Sonic fanfiction to the mailing list, but I still trust Linux to be a safe platform to write erotic Sonic fanfiction."

The best of absolute burns I've seen today.

@davidgerard Why do they care instead of just staying on GitHub and GitLab?

@davidgerard lmao people really feel like they are entitled to being platformed into every corner of the internet, why do they care so much if LLM-critical people have their corner of the internet?

A huge group of people take AI-criticism as a personal offense, which only goes to show that a lot of people cannot do anything without asking for Anthropic to do their thinking for them, and somehow they got into their heads that this is empowering.

@davidgerard Is it me or is the "Free software" argument almost exclusively gets raised when a small company (or a co-op in this case, I guess) tries to push back against a big corpo?
It's a similar thing to when ElasticSearch and Redis changed their licenses to stop Amazon from reselling their software without proper compensation.
A bit like "freeze peach" advocates of the FOSS world.

@davidgerard Once again, the "free software" argument raises its head in a weird direction.

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"Let them have their little corner of the internet and just stay away."

Although by accident, they have understood the point 🤭

@davidgerard such gross misunderstandings of free software's 4 freedoms. No, they *dont* force codeberg to spend their resources on your stupid vibe coded project. They can decide to use their resources how they see fit.

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Case in point:
"The last Codeberg story that popped up here just this week was something about them banning Bitcoin. At that pace you should worry whether you're next."

First they came for the coiners,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a coiner...