The author has already been kicked off Gitlab, so I'm not sure where else realistically they can go that wouldn't fold to copyright holders. Sourceforge? Launchpad? It's almost like it needs to be self hosted on IPFS or published on Bittorrent.
They haven't posted any updates on Twitter yet, but this is it: https://x.com/Magnolia1234B
https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chro...
Like I love bypassing paywalls but the extension is clearly away of circumventing a system that's meant to make you pay for content... Isn't it?
You're accessing content that can be viewed by Googlebot, or by disabling Javascript or some other simple browser tweaks.
If I publish a project on GitHub with a BSD license and after some time switch to a proprietary license the old code would still be licensed under BSD, right?
What I do an end-user is my discretion; if I want to remove or alter data sent to my endpoint, I should be able to without some corporation dictating what can be done.
Everything on the web needs decentralisation as we're nearing some sort of dystopia where corporations dictate how we live. Git itself it decentralised, but the hosting of files shouldn't be so easily removed.
We have witnessed various GH and co bans for USA orders, often for no reasons (like a Belarus game dev who have nothing to do with foreign gov or intelligence, a USA citizen who have been in Iran for a little time and so on), DMCA and so on. It's astonishing how many develop FLOSS without understanding such basic consideration on depending on third parties opposing the classic "ah, I'm here only for visibility" and than start using PR, CI, ... not even understanding the threat of that and the scale effect.
You absolutely don’t need usenet for that. Git is already distributed and any mailing list is fine for discussion. No need for nntp and the associated complexity.
The real issue is that most people have no idea about how to send and receive patches, share git bundles or use request-pull (or really use Git if I judge by the standard of my office) outside of GitHub.
About people knowing how to develop with an ML and patchsets, the issue it's not much in people but in the substantial absence of modern MUAs though ALSO for this simple automation. I use notmuch-emacs, but I can't propose it to most others simply because deciding to keep maildirs on their own homeservers, most do not even have, muchsync-ing against it, maybe also adding a web-MUA and a dovecot to serve the mails on the go also on mobile, ... it's simply way too much work.
That's why again we need NixOS/Guix System to simply say "hey, import this code, change few parameters and there you go your homeserver FULL setup with anything, just choose other modules to discover the FLOSS world.
This damn need usenet to allow newcomers discovering what we have, learning how to use, and learning a model almost all have never known or forgot for some crappy colorful WebUI/walled garden.
We do not need copies of the big tech stuff, we need to show better stuff from a model where big tech can't even exists economically. That's the FLOSS superiority and strength no company can dream to match if it's done on scale.
[1] https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_uploads
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20240813013640/https://github.co...
There is also radicle dot xyz.
thanks to our glorious intellectual property laws protecting the rich and punishing the poor.
