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Context: An external contributor is taking it upon himself to implement ActivityPub and possibly ForgeFed in Gitlab after Gitlab ignored the issue for more than 7 years

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Actually, Librewolf team set up recently a poll "should we move to Codeberg?". And this was one of the reasons for migrating.

P.S. other privacy/convenience issues with gitlab:

  • gitlab.com seems to require credit card information for new users signing up, which is not really great if people just want to report bugs.
  • gitlab.com uses Cloudflare, which for a few weeks locked out LibreWolf users from accessing gitlab.com in the past.
  • GitLab requires Javascript even to just look at issues, which is not the case for Codeberg

P.P.S. They did move their codebase to Codeberg as a result.

Not true, I just tried to sign up:

Appears to be optional, if you don't want to use a phone number.

From what I remember, they require a credit card info for people outside of US. Here's my sign up screen with Netherlands VPN:

Yeah, been using GitLab semi-professionally for a while and have accounts on multiple instances, it never asked me to have a credit card on file, and I just don't put in a phone number. Saying that it requires it is sensationalism.