Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.
gamer@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Anyone have the story behind this? Fuck Microsoft and all that, but Github has historically been pretty good when it comes to not banning people for stupid reasons. Usually, it’s a DMCA thing or a valid security threat.
Recently, there was some controversy about closed source code powering a component of the project (github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/9837) but I didn’t keep up with that. Could this ban be related to that?
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Some contributer got flagged by US sanctions based on their IP, I think
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Welcome to the “free world”.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Russia is free to fuck off out of Ukraine, simple as.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days ago
I’m sure there is a lot that the random developer who happened to be born in Russia can do about that.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
conservative: says a racial slur
Online Platform: bans user
conservative: “sO mUcH fOr tHe tOlEraNt lEfT 😡”
lumony@lemmings.world 6 days ago
Eh, you don’t really have a point when people get banned for saying men aren’t women.
uis@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Person: *makes an app for everyone to use*
Twitter baby: “Racial slurs! Racial slurs!”
Ushmel@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That’s weird. Russians and Americans aren’t sanctioned from working on projects together. The sanctions are mostly targeted towards industry and defense. Tucker Carlson works for Russian media and freely travels between the two countries. There has to be something more to this, like the IP came from a known state actor.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
They got unbanned, but it eroded trust that it won’t happen again
wewbull@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Ironically the US is more likely to drop the sanctions before Germany, where Codeberg is based.
lumony@lemmings.world 6 days ago
Viva la self-hosting!
Power to the people!