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Unpaid community work is best! (i.imgflip.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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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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[–] 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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