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Unpaid community work is best!
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Context: An external contributor is taking it upon himself to implement ActivityPub and possibly ForgeFed in Gitlab after Gitlab ignored the issue for more than 7 years
He presented the issue with gitlab very well. Setting up an entire new account is the major reason (besides time) I don't contribute to projects on other gitlab instances. For some reason Gitlab management didn't think it important at all (maybe even considered it a feature).
Actually, Librewolf team set up recently a poll "should we move to Codeberg?". And this was one of the reasons for migrating.
P.S. other privacy/convenience issues with gitlab:
P.P.S. They did move their codebase to Codeberg as a result.
Not true, I just tried to sign up:
Appears to be optional, if you don't want to use a phone number.
From what I remember, they require a credit card info for people outside of US. Here's my sign up screen with Netherlands VPN:
