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Author: Yuval Langer <yuval.langer@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 01:41:03 +0200
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+author: Yuval Langer
+date: 2024-01-12 01:14
+title: The DDoSing of Free Software Infrastructure and The New
+---
+
+As I am writing these words, [Codeberg][1] and [Source Hut][2] are
+under a [Distributed Denial of Service][3] 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.
+
+No, those who would have the most to profit from this attack are the
+decentralisationists. A rogue team of decentralisation
+[accelerationists][4] want us to be miserable on Codeberg and Source
+Hut, and to run our own instances of software such as [Fossil][5],
+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.
+
+[1]: https://codeberg.org/
+[2]: https://sr.ht/
+[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Distributed_DoS_attack
+[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
+[5]: https://www.fossil-scm.org/
