movie-web was just taken down with all its repos, Yuzu was taken down, then suyu forked it on gitlab and was taken down, countless clones of nintendo games, platform emulators, and a bunch of other things are taken down because they are hosted on the clear web.

If you’re a dev and planning to write software for piracy, host it on I2P!

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Not Gitea, they got bought by a for-profit company or something

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Why does that matter? The most popular Linux distros are run by for-profit companies.

I’m curious what real-world scenario you’re envisioning that is likely to happen soon.

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So far nothing bad has happened and the company was founded so they can sell support hours to businesses. Just like lots of other companies behind Open Source projects do it. 🤷‍♂️

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Ah yes. Forgejo is the current community fork.

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