All we need now is a CodeTitanic, to make the story complete.
Codeberg is up again! And I got spammed too, does that mean I’m a good FOSS developer? 😳
who’s a good FOSS developer? you are!
if you are on codeberg you are a good FOSS developer
Ok. “I am a good FOSS developer”
Based on recent news I’m guessing this might be the result of a DDoS attack from the far-right
Before the ddos they were also spamming a certain n-word. Why are far-right groups targeting codeberg anyway?
Codeberg published a blog post yesterday. They suspect (or know?) that it’s a broadened attack because Codeberg hosts liberal and human projects.
In the past days, several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights on Codeberg have been subject to hate attacks, such as massive spam of abusive messages in their issue trackers. We have been monitoring the situation closely and have tried to clean up the content as quickly as possible.
Often, content remained available only for a few and up to 30 minutes. Due to constrained personal capacities, some rare cases have remained online for longer. We appreciate all your reports to [email protected] that help us identify abuse quickly.
On 12 February 2025, an abuser has escalated the attacks to a next level. Instead of targetting individual projects, they have started to create abusive content and mentioned Codeberg users in chunks of 100 each.
(emphasis mine)
The real reason is that I have no idea, regardless they’re attacking a free and open source software project/developers that benefits everyone. Attacking them makes no sense.Far-right extremists tend to act based on tribal emotions rather than with empathy and logic.
Give them anything as an ‘enemy’ and they’re likely to see red and charge.Edit:
I remembered the reason:In the past days, several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights on Codeberg have been subject to hate attacks, such as massive spam of abusive messages in their issue trackers.
Could be, although codeberg goes down more than anything else I use so this could be normal.
although codeberg goes down more than anything else I use so this could be normal
They often go down because of ddos attacks, although not exclusively.
Could be, although codeberg goes down more than anything else I use so this just could just be normal.
I also wouldn’t rule that possibility out.
I’m guessing an attack from the far-right as their unruly behavior has been flaring up globally and Codeberg literally yesterday was fending off attacks from the far-right so to me the timing seems supicious.
This is a good argument for self-hosting Forgejo (which is quite simple compared to gitlab from what I hear).
But good to see they are standing up to this shit.
So much simpler than gitlab. An executable and a single config file. That’s all there is if you use sqlite as the database.
Gitlab was a farmyard of different things to worry about.
Traditional server-based self-hosting will have lower average uptime, will be easier to attack, and will have a much higher chance of disappearing out of nowhere (bus factor event, or for any other reason).
A decentralized or distributed solution would make more sense as a suggestion here. Radicale (this one) is such an effort I’m aware of, although I never tried it myself or take a look at its architecture.
Self hosting git repos can be super minimal. If you don’t have a lot of users or repos, just use ssh. Hell you can host a repo on a local SMB network share eben.
Yes it’s trivial to host a repo, and then you have achieved approximately 2% of a forge.
Reason I went or self-hosting Forgejo is to know it when federation comes along for real.
I’d love being able to federate my self-hosted Forgejo with my friends self-hosted Forgejo servers.
https://forgejo.org/2025-01-monthly-update/#federationI wish I could upvote this a hundred times.
If you’re not stuck on git, give fossil a try. It’s a distributed source code version control with an integrated bug tracker, wiki, forum, and more. All that in in one 3 MB sized binary.
It can even mirror to GitHub and export/import git repositories.
It’s very easy to host yourself.
Hm. Got tagged on a spam post that just says “hi”.
https://codeberg.org/austedan/thisisatest1/issues/45
Ah, I didn’t know you could
in the conversation.I got tagged in one called “N***er balls”.
Imagine waking up and seeting that email notification.
PS: Picture just to confirm:
NOTE: I have also seen since yesterday that my crowdsec instance has been blocking way more ip’s for bots trying to crawl and shit like that so I think that this all might be a more general uptake in bots and that sites that never really had great protections against it are now taking the fall.
Just from yesterday to today I got over 100k more blocks.
That’s the same one I got.
Got the same message, but from a different issue
It looks like someone is spmming the issue tracker of Codeberg/org with mass mentions
Uptime status may not be representative though.
When I open the dashboard right now it loads the HTML but then only shows a loading icon.
Codeberg keeps calling the group the far right. Is there any political motivation or something else here? To me, it just looks like troll behavior. Is there more details about the attacks that I missed?
If you’ll examine the last 20 years of history, you’ll find that generally, unfocused and unclear trolling with racist elements is usually sourced from the far right.
Source? What is the percentage of trolls that were even chased and successfully denonymized?
Its right-wing because of the content and target of the trolling. They’ve said this started as a target harrasent of certain projects.
