Kaka Farm!
The DDoSing of Free Software Infrastructure and The New Decentralisation Accelerationists
Date published:(no, this is not a serious post. I don't believe any of this, none except that Fossil's probably good for you.)
As I am writing these words, Codeberg and Source Hut are under a Distributed Denial of Service attack from an unknown party.
People are speculating about the source of the attack. Who would want to cause such a serious disruption to Free Software development and dissemination? An attack that is about as vile as kicking a baby for laughing too loudly.
Some say proprietary software vendors want to disrupt Free Software and draw people towards their walled gardens. Some say it's the proprietary Git "forges" who would like to draw the scared masses and their software to their centralised services. Both of those parties locking the walls behind the new inhabitants. Others say it's surely the Content Delivery Network services, dabbling in an information technology protection racket.
No, those who would have the most to profit from this attack are the decentralisationists. A rogue team of decentralisation accelerationists want us to be miserable on Codeberg and Source Hut, and to run our own instances of software such as Fossil, which have all of the benefits of Git, tracking code, but also a wiki, and issues, all in an entirely decentralised way, no need for a Git forge.
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