#GitHub is blocking users based on national origin, citing US trade controls law restrictions....
People from #Iran, #Syria, #Crimea, #Cuba, and North Korea woke up one day to lose access to all their public and private repositories. There's reporting that even people *who traveled* to any of those countries in the last 2 years are losing their data...
And #GitHub has not said ONE WORD ABOUT IT.
@vickysteeves
I'd like to encourage everyone not to use #github any more. We should free ourselves from #microsoft and viscous north American imperialism. #gitlab and #gittea are great alternatives. Ideally self hosted. Please move your software away from github.
This is not a political statement. This is a statement about #freedom as in FLOSS.
@gdroid @vickysteeves Gitlab.com is actually quite evil. Endorsing #gitlab s/w alone is fine but it's important to condemn the gitlab.com #walledgarden service at the same time.
@resist1984 Would you mind explaining which parts of gitlab.com are evil?
@resist1984 For what it's worth, there is work happening on the reCAPTCHA. See for example https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/29830.
@winniehell I'm pleased to see you are taking it in the direction of reduced #CAPTCHA pushing. All captchas are generally evil as they fail to separate good bots from bad ones. But if a CAPTCHA must be used, the worst possible choice is Google's reCAPTCHA, which poses a #netneutrality issue (as it creates access inequality by giving extra poor treatment to users not logged into Google).
@vickysteeves @gdroid for a service replacement, codeberg.org and notabug.org are reasonably ethical