Well left but yes

It's probably to make minorities feel unsafe, even in their own spaces.

Well the open source crowd is probably one of the most diverse communities in so many ways.

Everything from wife-killers, toenail-eaters, to geniuses that rolled a one in social skills. From Mexico, to Israel, to Indonesia. From a kid in the library who can't afford a computer, to millionaires running a data centre in their basement.

Diversity is one-third of DEI, which currently is public enemy number one. So here we are..

Classic case of coop the resistance by introducing completely different talking points.

FOSS is not left or right, it's FOSS. Those trying to change it to something else is trying to coop it.

There is no controversy. The blue vs red lens does not make sense in this context.

The other answers are right, just explaining in simpler language in case anyone needs it:

Codeberg, like Gitlab and Github, is a site for hosting and managing code repositories. These make it easy for many people to collaborate on a software project, review code, keep track of changes and history, keep track of bugs and feature requests, and more.

Here's an example of a (very active) code project to explore: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity (An audio editor based on Audacity)

The most famous code repo management tool, GitHub, was bought by Microsoft a few years ago, so reliable community-run alternatives like Codeberg are increasingly important.

It's a code forge like Github or Gitlab. It uses open source technology on its backend and is often used by FOSS/privacy-minded projects.

It's a thing for people to share git repositories and see the diffs and send changes. Common alternatives are gitlab and github. Codeberg is a fork community maintained after the original owners started to be weird and doing stuff that people didn't like. It's written in Go language. Small and fast for people to deploy themselves and maintain, in complete opposite from the common alternative people used gitlab which is a huge pain to self host and needs enormous resources.

Turn off downvotes so you don’t have to care

Not necessarily a phishing mail. I got tagged in an issue that some idiot created and codeberg dutifully sent me a mail notification.

Same here. Such a jarring and upsetting way to start a morning

Same! Very confusing thing first thing in the morning

Issue #1113 by any chance? :D

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From what I gather, I don't think it's about any stance from Codeberg in general, it seems they are attacking "several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights" in particular. They just happen to be hosted in Codeberg.

@vortexal @opensource @RmDebArc_5 I got the same emails - and sine I was curious I opened the URL (after carefully checking that it really pointed to codeberg). And I was really impressed that the @Codeberg team obvviously already reacted and removed the project. Thanks for talking care!

ok there was that time I left a comment on a librewolf issue