• RobotToasterEnglish
    56·
    8 months ago

    Gitlab seem to be terrible for rolling over for corps.

    • dvdnet62@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      30·
      8 months ago

      Yeah, Gitlab take down the repo without notice. Github even gave the warning letter first before take down the repo

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        211·
        8 months ago

        If it’s a DMCA takedown notice, both GitHub and GitLab are required to take it down. There is no real agency on the part of the hosting site.

        It’s up to the uploader to counterclaim and enable the host to make the content accessible again.

        • dvdnet62@feddit.nlOPEnglish
          152·
          8 months ago

          We can see a lot from Suyu cases that also on Gitlab it just DMCAd without warning to the maintainer compared to uyouplus and saikou that hosted on Github with proper warning message. So, users have a brief time to fork it or download the latest version. So, Github is much more humane.

    • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      8 months ago

      We need a GitTorrent protocol with DHT. All forks could be one repository, and the identical code shared between them can be cross-seeded.

        • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4·
          7 months ago

          I’m not super familiar with it but basically that would mean each code base would be an immutable chain, and all edits get appended? Seems like that would be very compatible with torrent seeding, just need to handle the branches. A branching blockchain, is that a block tree?

          • winterayars@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            7 months ago

            I’m being a little silly. Blockchain stuff wouldn’t work great for hosting git on for a number of reasons. You might be onto something with that idea about integrating it with gir and torrents, though. I was thinking of using it as an external way to verify the repo is the real thing and hasn’t been tampered with but your idea may be a better version of that.

          • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            5·
            8 months ago

            There are a good amount but of course the copyright trolls would rather people ignore them because they have no leverage there (seriously I’ve seen . Many of these countries are enemy states to the western world and unless that changes it’s unlikely copyright treaties from the west will reach those states, and vice versa.

            One common example of a place like that is the Commonwealth of Independent States (C.I.S.) it includes Russia and a few other countries.

              • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                2·
                8 months ago

                Yes, but often those countries come with their own huge bag of problems.

                Not saying they don’t, everything has pros and cons and you need to decide what’s really important to you and whether or not it’s worth overcoming the challenges associated, many decide it isn’t, and that’s okay, but some decide it is and choose to pursue it.

                I’m saying we don’t give the copyright and corporate trolls what they want and act or talk like the enemy states out of their reach don’t exist or that someone couldn’t or wouldn’t go there to do the dirty work, or imply that these places are going away sometime in the near future.

                All not that easy and it can get highly criminal very fast.

                Of course it is, anyone should know that working in and for an enemy country is criminal. If someone didn’t understand that they need to pick a side in the world they deserve what they get. Most people who are dedicated enough to go that far understand the risks well enough, and are willing to take them.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        It can but they have to go through the effort to actually follow through with the end goal. It’s not just an easy automated bureaucratic process to keep stupid safe harbor provisions (that’s why copyright claims are so abusable).

              • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                2·
                7 months ago

                This is such a stupid argument considering you don’t need a fucking giant ass data center to host a tiny little git server. I’ve seen this argument time and time again, but the real reason people go with VPSes is convenience and laziness.

                I would absolutely agree with the other person that renting your own VPS is not self-hosting, not by a long shot. You could argue that you need a massive host for a large video or music platform, or even a large git platform with thousands of repos, but not for a tiny single user, single project forgejo or gitlab instance or a single static web page.

              • Sethayy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                7 months ago

                Yeah but like not everyone has a a thousand acres either - though you dont hear shoppers at the farmers market calling themselves farmers

    • winterayars@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      On the grounds that the dmca is a blank check to let big corporations do whatever the fuck they want. It doesn’t have to be legal, but if you don’t take whatever they want down then that’s illegal and could get you (GitHub, in this case) in serious trouble.

    • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.comEnglish
      6·
      8 months ago

      I haven’t gone into detail on this, but I suspect some shiny-suited, greasy-haired wanker lawyer has been able to make a case that things like site-specific CSS classes and the like can somehow be covered by DMCA.

      I’m 100% speculating (not American, not a lawyer) but it’s more than URIs and Javascript, is what I’m saying.