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Some thoughts about Codeberg as an end-user (thebrainbin.org)

submitted 1 week ago by Auster@thebrainbin.org to c/deshittification@thebrainbin.org

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Some thoughts about Codeberg as an end-user

#Codeberg #deshittification

A few weeks ago I had to ask a dev there something. As I'd never used it, to my surprise, figuring the UI/UX out was pretty seamless, like the designers went for a lean version of GitHub.

RSS pulls a lot of things and is easy to spot. Visual noise is minimal. Update links are legible. Color scheme has a good contrast despite being inaggressive. And elements in the page are blocky and so divide the different parts of a page efficiently.

Politically, apparently some people promote it for not being American (apparently German?). Dunno the company behind the service, and also don't know how tied to their government they are, so can't comment on that front.

Also can't comment on maintaining a project there, but since a site's design is usually consistent, I'd presume it's lean/seamless there too.

Overall, imo as an end-user, it did seem decent, and wish more sites went for this design philosophy when trying to be an alternative to other services.

Only concern is RSS: it does pull a lot of things, and I couldn't find a way to filter stuff out, so I worry the noise a more popular or active project would cause.

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[–] mindwanderer@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

The reason people promote it as not american is because europeans are trying to move away from american big tech. However, since many people dont even know about any european alternatives, Content creators in europe have started the di-day (digital independence day), where at the first sunday of every month they inform about how to get more independent from american big tech. Sadly though, this struggles to get out of the tech bubble.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 week ago

Codeberg uses forgejo for reference

And Codeberg e.V. is out of Germany, confirmed.