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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Got two notifications this morning where I was tagged in an issue, but just a few minutes later when I tried to view the report it was already gone.
Really, props to the Codeberg moderation team for their hard work.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I woke up to this, this is what it was if anyone was wondering:

edit: they've sent out apology emails to all who were affected. there was no leak of emails so it seems

[–] andioop 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was tagged, immediately clicked to see the link so I could report abuse, and got a 404. Very fast response. I appreciate that and the message Codeberg sent out that OP posted here. Came to p.d to see if anyone posted it yet.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Seems like codeberg got significant attention for spammers to come and do this.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm looking for a repo to host a couple of projects. I hadn't considered codeberg as a home until now.

I guess I'll donate when I sign up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Exactly. I've already hosted a small script project there but this blog post reminded me I'd forgotten to add them to my December donations list.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I currently have an outage from my own forgejo insrance (which codeberg runs as well afaik) since yesterday. I wonder if that is connected.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Here someone abused some feature to automatically create comments mentioning hundreds or more users so that the server send the comment notification via email. The email I got had just the N word followed by "balls" and lots of mentioned accounts. Not sure if others got longer messages?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

same email here.

[–] andioop 1 points 2 months ago

That's exactly what I got too

[–] 0x0 0 points 2 months ago

So that's what it was...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More likely due to extreme AI scraping. That has been an issue with selfhosted Forgejo instances for months now and it is a complete PITA to deal with.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] xtools 2 points 2 months ago

interesting project, thx for sharing! though:

There is not currently a way to differentiate between web crawlers that are indexing sites for search purposes, vs crawlers that are training AI models. ANY SITE THIS SOFTWARE IS APPLIED TO WILL LIKELY DISAPPEAR FROM ALL SEARCH RESULTS.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there an easier way to give them money than becoming a member?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I had a codeburg account I never did anything with and was worried they got hacked or something. However, since I had never really used it, I just kinda shrugged (separate email, randomly-generated pass). They sent an email mentioning it was this sort of spam.

[–] onlinepersona 3 points 2 months ago

Quite childish behavior.

Other opinions exist, I must exert my free speech to ridicule other opinions and try to offend those holding them

"Signed, a free speech absolutist"

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] FizzyOrange 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess an easy fix for that particular issue is to severely rate limit mentions. E.g. if a user mentions more than 100 users in 1 hour then delay them and flag the account. Then you can whitelist it if it's a legit CI bot or whatever.

[–] xtools 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this could be gamed though - mention 99 users, switch accounts, rinse and repeat

[–] FizzyOrange 1 points 2 months ago

I assume there's some barrier to creating accounts that makes it difficult? If not there's pretty much nothing they can do.

[–] TheV2 2 points 2 months ago

I'm glad I saw this post and codeberg's statement before the spam notifications.