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This is a good argument for self-hosting Forgejo (which is quite simple compared to gitlab from what I hear).
But good to see they are standing up to this shit.
Traditional server-based self-hosting will have lower average uptime, will be easier to attack, and will have a much higher chance of disappearing out of nowhere (bus factor event, or for any other reason).
A decentralized or distributed solution would make more sense as a suggestion here. Radicale (this one) is such an effort I’m aware of, although I never tried it myself or take a look at its architecture.
Based on recent news I’m guessing this might be the result of a DDoS attack from the far-right
Before the ddos they were also spamming a certain n-word. Why are far-right groups targeting codeberg anyway?
The real reason is that I have no idea, regardless they’re attacking a free and open source software project/developers that benefits everyone. Attacking them makes no sense.Far-right extremists tend to act based on tribal emotions rather than with empathy and logic.
Give them anything as an ‘enemy’ and they’re likely to see red and charge.Edit:
I remembered the reason:In the past days, several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights on Codeberg have been subject to hate attacks, such as massive spam of abusive messages in their issue trackers.
Codeberg published a blog post yesterday. They suspect (or know?) that it’s a broadened attack because Codeberg hosts liberal and human projects.
In the past days, several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights on Codeberg have been subject to hate attacks, such as massive spam of abusive messages in their issue trackers. We have been monitoring the situation closely and have tried to clean up the content as quickly as possible.
Often, content remained available only for a few and up to 30 minutes. Due to constrained personal capacities, some rare cases have remained online for longer. We appreciate all your reports to [email protected] that help us identify abuse quickly.
On 12 February 2025, an abuser has escalated the attacks to a next level. Instead of targetting individual projects, they have started to create abusive content and mentioned Codeberg users in chunks of 100 each.
(emphasis mine)
Could be, although codeberg goes down more than anything else I use so this could be normal.
Could be, although codeberg goes down more than anything else I use so this just could just be normal.
I also wouldn’t rule that possibility out.
I’m guessing an attack from the far-right as their unruly behavior has been flaring up globally and Codeberg literally yesterday was fending off attacks from the far-right so to me the timing seems supicious.
They’ve posted on Mastodon, that it is a (D)DoS: https://linuxrocks.online/@[email protected]/113995906036180301
Hm. Got tagged on a spam post that just says “hi”.
https://codeberg.org/austedan/thisisatest1/issues/45
Ah, I didn’t know you could
@moderationin the conversation.I got tagged in one called “N***er balls”.
Imagine waking up and seeting that email notification.
PS: Picture just to confirm:
NOTE: I have also seen since yesterday that my crowdsec instance has been blocking way more ip’s for bots trying to crawl and shit like that so I think that this all might be a more general uptake in bots and that sites that never really had great protections against it are now taking the fall.
Just from yesterday to today I got over 100k more blocks.
Got the same message, but from a different issue
All we need now is a CodeTitanic, to make the story complete.
Reminds me: long ago, one comedy website made a bunch of awards that you could put on your own website with if you didn’t get awards from anyone else. (Having a bunch of random awards was the style of the time.) One of these was the coveted Titanic Navigation Award. I don’t think it can be awarded to anyone any more, as the developers of React have been the most deserving one to receive it in recent years, for their unending efforts in making navigation more confusing for everyone.
Codeberg is up again! And I got spammed too, does that mean I’m a good FOSS developer? 😳
Codeberg keeps calling the group the far right. Is there any political motivation or something else here? To me, it just looks like troll behavior. Is there more details about the attacks that I missed?
If you’ll examine the last 20 years of history, you’ll find that generally, unfocused and unclear trolling with racist elements is usually sourced from the far right.
Its right-wing because of the content and target of the trolling. They’ve said this started as a target harrasent of certain projects.
