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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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[–] [S] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He presented the issue with gitlab very well. Setting up an entire new account is the major reason (besides time) I don't contribute to projects on other gitlab instances. For some reason Gitlab management didn't think it important at all (maybe even considered it a feature).

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Not true, I just tried to sign up:

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

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It requires it in countries other than the US

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