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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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[-] janAkali@lemmy.one 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] twistypencil@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not true, I just tried to sign up:

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

[-] janAkali@lemmy.one 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] odium@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

It requires it in countries other than the US

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago
[-] odium@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

I guess Canada also doesn't need credit cards. But as you can see from this comment, there are countries in which credit cards are required: https://lemmy.one/comment/3041845

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