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PSA Huggingface is scraping GitHub (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceCode/in-the-stack

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Get off of Github if you think this is a problem 🤷 There are alternatives like Forgejo (Codeberg), Gitlab, and Radicle (decentralised).

[–] cultist@feddit.dk 2 points 1 day ago

I am personally on SourceHut, but do have a codeberg account.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Those are obviously scraped as well?

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Sure, but they can't discover them all. Especially radicle is not easy to crawl, due to it's decentralised nature. It can even be hosted on TOR and I2P