the-ddosing-of-free-software-infrastructure-and-the-new-decentralisation-accelerationists.md (1856B)
1 author: Yuval Langer 2 date: 2024-01-12 01:14 3 tags: codeberg, sourcehut, ddos, fossil 4 title: The DDoSing of Free Software Infrastructure and The New Decentralisation Accelerationists 5 --- 6 7 (no, this is not a serious post. I don't believe any of this, none 8 except that Fossil's probably good for you.) 9 10 As I am writing these words, [Codeberg][1] and [Source Hut][2] are 11 under a [Distributed Denial of Service][3] attack from an unknown 12 party. 13 14 People are speculating about the source of the attack. Who would want 15 to cause such a serious disruption to Free Software development and 16 dissemination? An attack that is about as vile as kicking a baby for 17 laughing too loudly. 18 19 Some say proprietary software vendors want to disrupt Free Software 20 and draw people towards their walled gardens. Some say it's the 21 proprietary Git "forges" who would like to draw the scared masses and 22 their software to their centralised services. Both of those parties 23 locking the walls behind the new inhabitants. Others say it's surely 24 the [Content Delivery Network][4] services, dabbling in an information 25 technology [protection racket][5]. 26 27 No, those who would have the most to profit from this attack are the 28 decentralisationists. A rogue team of decentralisation 29 [accelerationists][6] want us to be miserable on Codeberg and Source 30 Hut, and to run our own instances of software such as [Fossil][7], 31 which have all of the benefits of Git, tracking code, but also a wiki, 32 and issues, all in an entirely decentralised way, no need for a Git 33 forge. 34 35 [1]: https://codeberg.org/ 36 [2]: https://sr.ht/ 37 [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Distributed_DoS_attack 38 [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network 39 [5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket 40 [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism 41 [7]: https://www.fossil-scm.org/