Boycott all US based services.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
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American here, please do this.
All of our companies are run by scumbags taking advantage of useful idiots. We need more options and legitimate competition.
Especially github. I thought all of you were supposed to leave that when microsoft bought it. I never used it but I definitely wouldn't these days..
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Everyone who is censored, everyone who abuses their mod powers; it just creates an opportunity for people to pick up the slack and create better communities.
You only have yourselves to blame, dickhead mods.
So why were they blocked?
One of their main contributors are in US sanctioned regions (Russia) so they can't access it.
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We need something like Forgejo, but decentralized and federated, like Lemmy. I don't want to create a new account for every Forgejo instance, just to be able to report a bug...
Edit: Added "and federated"
Forgejo is in fact working on being decentralized, just like the underlying git structure is. There are some first federation things in there, but the full implementation is still pretty far out.
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Git is already decentralized, nothing is stopping you from adding multiple remotes to your repo.
You know, git initially was that kind of thing where people would send diff commits on mailing lists. Git is perfectly decentralized already. And there's no need for federation.
Forgejo is already decentralized too. You could host your own instance right now, if you'd want.
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Anyone have the story behind this? Fuck Microsoft and all that, but Github has historically been pretty good when it comes to not banning people for stupid reasons. Usually, it's a DMCA thing or a valid security threat.
Recently, there was some controversy about closed source code powering a component of the project (https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/9837) but I didn't keep up with that. Could this ban be related to that?
Some contributer got flagged by US sanctions based on their IP, I think
That's weird. Russians and Americans aren't sanctioned from working on projects together. The sanctions are mostly targeted towards industry and defense. Tucker Carlson works for Russian media and freely travels between the two countries. There has to be something more to this, like the IP came from a known state actor.
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why is Organic Street Maps better than the other ones, that claim to be Open Street Maps derived?
bandwidth is not disposable ya'll.
Two reasons:
- interface rocks
- maps are downloaded for offline use
I've been using OsmAnd for years, and offline maps has always been one of their main things.
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I tried a lot of them and i like the interface of Organic the best.
This was always going to jappen datahoarders we have to mirror all of github!
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Sucks for Organic Maps but that's the FAANG.
I love organic maps, sometimes I practice navigation by turning location off and using a compass with the downloaded map on my phone.
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