Today you need to be independent. I hope other projects will follow suit.
P.S. GitHub has announced a limit of 100,000 repositories per user or organization account. The limit will take effect on April 28.
What happened? Why did github block them?
OrganicMaps GitHub repo was blocked due to contributor being geolocated in a US-sanctioned place https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370
🎉 sometimes US sanctions actually do lead to positive outcomes :)
the world adapts :)
Which sanctioned country? There are several of them.
Guess Russia.
Yeah, that was my first guess, but I don’t like to assume.
I wasn’t curious enough to look deeper.
Thank you. Would you mind explaining what this means please? What is a U.S.-sanctioned place? Why does the U.S. government think this is a bad thing?
contributor being geolocated in a US-sanctioned place
What is a U.S.-sanctioned place? Why does the U.S. government think this is a bad thing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_sanctions
US likes to impose arbitrary sanctions on its adversaries. Basically the US government decided that people from a particular country aren’t allowed to collaborate with people using US based platforms like GitHub.
The US has been punishing open source contributors from countries they don’t like.
@TheOubliette @racketlauncher831 supporters and apologists of violence against innocent civilians should be punished, by any human. You don’t think so? Do you support violence against innocent civilians?
Sanctions are indiscriminate punishment that mainly affect innocent civilians.
@driving_crooner sanctions work to stop undemocratic regimes. Those regimes are keeping their own people hostage, and I wish there was a way to save the anti-regime people without supporting the regime. But traveling to Crimea is not what anti-regime people do, so sanction that ass.
Sanctions does not work, the regime still stays while average people suffers and even it harder to even escape the country. North Korea still exist. Belarus still exist. Eritrea still exist.
American sanctions also only targeted towards anti-America countries. If the regime is pro-America, it’s not gonna be sanctioned.
If you actually support democracy, let’s support the people by giving them platform in the international community. Making them be able to showcase their voice without hijacked by external political force.
What country do you live in and how much should you be punished for living in it?
@TheOubliette living in a country, vs going on vacation in Crimea, are two very different things.
Only issue is no federation support on forgejo. I know they are working and wish goodluck to them!! So excited
looks that way
Was just about to post this before @yogthos@lemmy.ml beat me to the punch. 🙂👍
Why are so many projects still on Microsoft-owned github? They should follow OM’s lead.
Visibility :/
Github is basically social media but for tech nerds. Social media networks naturally monopolize, as they primarily have value because everyone else is already there. If you put your project on Github and it is popular you might get 2k “stars” and regular pull requests. If you put your project on an alternative you might get 10X less of both. So people make decisions about the trade-offs between exposure and avoiding Microsoft
I think we all know this, but it’s the exact same argument for Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn. Getting off centralized, corporate, for-profit cloud services should be a priority for anyone who is philosophically aligned with FOSS.
Organic Maps said not to blame this on Microsoft but rather on US law
I’ll just go ahead and take the liberty of blaming both.
I think every other Us based company has to follow the same laws, as you’d expect tbh.
Anything that follows the fascist US regime’s laws should be boycotted. Congrats to OrganicMaps for ditching Github.
Nice, looks like they are self hosting then?
I’m out of the loop. Why did github “block” Organic Maps?
One of the contributors was in a country that the USA likes to bully with sanctions.
There is a comment on this post with a link to Mastodon for Organic Maps
