Post #2439079
2026-05-12 06:14 UTC
Replies (16)
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@svenja@mstdn.games 2026-05-12 06:25
@thunfisch@chaos.social I also can't escape because we use it at work.
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@noiob@awoo.space 2026-05-12 06:28
@thunfisch@chaos.social holy shit that reads like a fever dream
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@heine@chaos.social 2026-05-12 06:40
@thunfisch@chaos.social same here. Eyeing switching to forgejo. But it will be painful.
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@mauricerenck@mastodon.online 2026-05-12 08:37
@thunfisch@chaos.social oh man, I had two self-hosted instances running and nearly every update ended in massive problems. That was some years ago. Eventually we switched and I shut it off. Recently I thought switching back because of the stuff happening at GitHub… well…
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@sammypanda@aus.social 2026-05-12 09:08
@thunfisch@chaos.social what to go to? bitbucket? 😬
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@cyprius@wehavecookies.social 2026-05-12 09:09
@thunfisch@chaos.social My employer is all in on Gitlab. This is going to be interesting, and by interesting I mean VERY BAD.
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@AlienJay@burningboard.net 2026-05-12 09:21
@thunfisch@chaos.social Codeberg is not an option to move to for you?
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@Moss_the_TeXie@rheinneckar.social 2026-05-12 09:43
@thunfisch@chaos.social Thanks for the warning! I migrated my wee stuff to Codeberg (out of simple curiosity) about a year ago (or two?) but will delete the remnants.
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@tudbut@social.tudbut.de 2026-05-12 10:05
@thunfisch@chaos.social https://forgejo.org/
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@upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-12 10:10
@thunfisch@chaos.social Wow I didn't know gitlab did an IPO in 2021. Their shares are down 77% since launch... no wonder they're sacking people
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@elricofmelnibone@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 10:10
@thunfisch@chaos.social I haven't had any major problems running self-hosted Gitlab in the ~13(?) years I've been using it. I've always been impressed (and have taken inspiration from) their public company handbook. And this news is likely to erode all of my trust in them as a company and their product. Enshittification seems to be everywhere.
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@chpietsch@fedifreu.de 2026-05-12 10:26
@thunfisch@chaos.social Same here, except I'm running GitLab for a 4 digit user base. Hoping to offer them a Forgejo alternative soon.
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@peturdainn@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 10:53
@thunfisch@chaos.social "We're rewiring internal processes with AI agents, automating the reviews, approvals, and handoffs to speed us up" oh yeah, that will work just great
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@pbarker@social.afront.org 2026-05-12 11:10
@thunfisch@chaos.social I love how they call it "Act 2", the bit where the protagonist fails repeatedly as they aren't learning the correct lessons, setting them up for redemption or complete failure in Act 3.
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@mewbassprr@mas.to 2026-05-12 15:15
@thunfisch@chaos.social I tried to read that but I couldn't. The worst kind of LLM generated Linked-in speak. Edit: I mean their statement, on the link you posted, of course. I cannot believe anyone would like to call that a letter, or even sign it with their name.
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@jessebot@social.smallhack.org 2026-05-12 17:03
@thunfisch@chaos.social I think you should start mirroring to codeberg.org, especially if you're already paying for it. Also consider mirroring to your own forgejo instance if you already have money to throw at this and just stop paying gitlab. I know it's a pain in the ass. I've been doing the same thing with github over the course of almost a full year now, but it's worth it. You'll still find all the community and the people who don't follow you, don't have the same priorities anyway. Codeberg, for instance, as much more more anti-AI community and while some AI is present there, Forgejo itself has an anti-AI policy, which is all codeberg.org is under the hood, so you can at least rest assured that it's going to remain slop free for the time to come at least.