Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.

Everyone who is censored, everyone who abuses their mod powers; it just creates an opportunity for people to pick up the slack and create better communities.

You only have yourselves to blame, dickhead mods.

Boycott all US based services.

This post is stupid. The whole reason they are blocked is because Russia invaded ukraine, so the US sanctioned them, so Russian developers can't use Github, not because "microsoft bad" (true but irrelevant in this case) but because Microsoft is legally obligated to block them.

Fuck russia. Honestly this post makes Microsoft, Github and USA look good, and Organic Maps look bad. Organic maps should ban russian developers from contributing.

Honestly after this post I will avoid Organic maps. More like genocide-complicit maps amirite.

I love organic maps, sometimes I practice navigation by turning location off and using a compass with the downloaded map on my phone.

So why were they blocked?

why is Organic Street Maps better than the other ones, that claim to be Open Street Maps derived?

bandwidth is not disposable ya'll.

https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370

Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?

We need something like Forgejo, but decentralized and federated, like Lemmy. I don't want to create a new account for every Forgejo instance, just to be able to report a bug...

Edit: Added "and federated"

Anyone have the story behind this? Fuck Microsoft and all that, but Github has historically been pretty good when it comes to not banning people for stupid reasons. Usually, it's a DMCA thing or a valid security threat.

Recently, there was some controversy about closed source code powering a component of the project (https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/9837) but I didn't keep up with that. Could this ban be related to that?

Nice!

I actually recently set up my own Forgejo instance, and it's remarkably similar to GitHub, to the point where they share Github's "actions" code.

Congrats! More hosting diversity is a good thing.

What is really needed is a fediverse for git repos

can someone make a quick intro to what happends for microsoft to block organicmaps account ?

So wait.

GitHub is Microsoft?

EDIT: Okay, fuck that. I was just getting all set up there but not now.

I am trying to decide between PyCharm and VS Code for my Python IDE. I was leaning toward VS Code, but they're Microsoft too, aren't they?

Who could have ever anticipated Git hub going to shoot after Microsoft bought it

Sucks for Organic Maps but that's the FAANG.

ai driven anti-spam is destroying the internet and deleting legitimate businesses every day. there is usually no customer support, and there are no humans in charge. there is nothing you can do.

Nice! It even supports the same RSS feed format. For anyone who also wants FOSS releases injected straight into their veins https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps/releases.atom

Why did they get removed? I feel like I'm missing a whole backstory here.

I'm looking forward to the time Forgejo starts supporting Forgefed

Lol fucking Russians deserve to be blocked everywhere

Very interesting 🤔💭

Ah, the threatened oligarchy is at it again. I'm sure its purely a coincidence and not at all a retaliation for people abandoning big tech en masse.

is forgejo the same thing as codeberg? it looks similar.. just curious

Downloaded and installed!

👍👍

Extremely based

I've switched to CalyxOS 6 or 7 months ago, OrganicMaps came with it. I have never looked back.

Whyyy???

This is great. Now I can submit issues easier and look into contribution. Storing projects on Github is awful. The signup process is a mess.

I wish, but when I am looking gor a job the employer will look at the green squares and leetcode score or something stupid like that instead of my projects or having a discussion in general.