Context: An external contributor is taking it upon himself to implement ActivityPub and possibly ForgeFed in Gitlab after Gitlab ignored the issue for more than 7 years
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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video by Brodie Robertson about activitypub on gitlab (YouTube link)
He presented the issue with gitlab very well. Setting up an entire new account is the major reason (besides time) I don't contribute to projects on other gitlab instances. For some reason Gitlab management didn't think it important at all (maybe even considered it a feature).
Actually, Librewolf team set up recently a poll "should we move to Codeberg?". And this was one of the reasons for migrating.
P.S. other privacy/convenience issues with gitlab:
P.P.S. They did move their codebase to Codeberg as a result.
Not true, I just tried to sign up:
Appears to be optional, if you don't want to use a phone number.
From what I remember, they require a credit card info for people outside of US. Here's my sign up screen with Netherlands VPN:
Yeah, been using GitLab semi-professionally for a while and have accounts on multiple instances, it never asked me to have a credit card on file, and I just don't put in a phone number. Saying that it requires it is sensationalism.
It requires it in countries other than the US
I'm Canadian
I guess Canada also doesn't need credit cards. But as you can see from this comment, there are countries in which credit cards are required: https://lemmy.one/comment/3041845
Their documentation has been frustratingly outdated at times too. But since GitHub is MS owned there are better options. I prefer codeberg for having an actual account on.