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project will no longer be under active development due to recent events involving Kakao Entertainment Corp's threats to both myself and others

In the upcoming days:

  • Our core GitHub repositories will be taken down
  • The official social media accounts will be closed
  • The official Discord server will be repurposed into a general community for those who are interested in staying
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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

We really need federated source forges on anonymous networks like I2P.

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[–] Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unironically thank you for licensing your comments! :)

[–] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then the devs could be anonymous and the their repos couldn't be taken down.

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[–] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Okay, but why? Can't you do that with selfhosted gitea/gitlab/forgejo? Remember that access to the instance has to be easy enough that normies can use it, so I guess having to figure out i2p is not viable

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

Because they you can ignore takedown requests and just focus on working on the project, not fearing lawsuits.

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[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Developers have a right to eat and pay for a roof over their head. NC prevents that.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago