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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)
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
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.
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.
I 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.
