Codeberg released an emergency statement regarding a powerful alt right attack that endangered the safety of everyone who has ever used codeberg. Sources say this is was probably organized by a DOGE-Steve Bannon alliance

We stay strong against hate and hatred

Codeberg public relations team

Wed 12 February 2025

Category: Announcement

Intro

Codeberg is currently suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces, and so are our users. First and foremost, we apologize for everyone who has recently received a notification email from our system containing offending and potentially traumatizing content. We are working hard on containing the effects on our users and systems.

Most importantly, your private data was not leaked. All emails have been generated through Codeberg's servers using the notification feature and the abusers had no access to your email address directly.

Fighting hate and far-right forces is important to us. Read to the end of this article to learn why.

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What has happened?

In the past days, several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights on Codeberg have been subject to hate attacks, such as massive spam of abusive messages in their issue trackers. We have been monitoring the situation closely and have tried to clean up the content as quickly as possible.

Often, content remained available only for a few and up to 30 minutes. Due to constrained personal capacities, some rare cases have remained online for longer. We appreciate all your reports to [email protected] that help us identify abuse quickly.

On 12 February 2025, an abuser has escalated the attacks to a next level. Instead of targetting individual projects, they have started to create abusive content and mentioned Codeberg users in chunks of 100 each. Depending on the notification settings of users (if you are a user on Codeberg, you can modify it in your settings), these generate notification emails that contain a copy of the post that includes the mention - and thus the abusive content via email.

Although our staff reacted quickly, blocked access to the used functionality and deleted the user accounts, they managed to generate a large amount of notification emails already.

Since this attack is not only harming Codeberg users but the platform itself, both via technical means (we had brief downtime of our systems and our mail server was suffering a lot), as well as by harming the reputation of our platform and trust users have shown us. We expect this incident to be in response to our swift moderation of the previous campaigns that targeted only individual projects.

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How could this happen?

Please understand that Codeberg.org is driven by volunteers mostly. We have sufficient capacity to run the platform under normal conditions, and normal conditions also include some headway to deal with abuse campaigns that come and go. We suppose that most readers did not notice the spam campaigns of the past days, and we are happy that we managed to contain them quickly. We are fighting with advertisement spam, phishing and malware week to week.

However, our capacity was obviously exhausted this time, when it comes to attacks that target us specifically. And we apologize for this.

You might wonder why there are not more technical countermeasures in place to prevent this type of abuse. Technical measures evolve over time, and we have implemented several protections on multiple levels that are trying to contain the amount of abuse you see day to day.

However, doing proper rate-limiting is hard. We need to ensure that legitimate usage of our API and interface is possible, including custom scripts that import or synchronize massive amounts of issues from projects on other platforms. There are some rate-limits tailored to the previous abuse vectors we have seen, which was mostly aggressive advertizing, and so it would not have been possible to create these massive postings if they would have contained a hyperlink to another website, for example.

However, just spamming notification emails to users is a new abuse vector to us, and we did not sufficiently prepare for this. For that, we are sorry.

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What will Codeberg do?

Currently, we are investigating the details of the attack and we have implemented short-term countermeasures and monitor activity on the platform closely. Further, we are responding to hundreds of emails from our users that ask about the incident. Some request the deletion of their data in response.

Next up, we will make plans on how to improve our protection against this and future kinds of abuse attacks on Codeberg itself to reduce the likelihood of similar things from ever happening again.

If you want to help with development work on Forgejo, the free/libre and open source software that powers Codeberg, please reach out. Go developers who can commit some time and patience to implement one our more technical measures in the codebase are much appreciated.

Unrelated to the current incident, we have worked with NLnet in the past weeks and secured funding for some moderation cowtools. A meeting was scheduled for later today at 20.00 CET to talk about technical architecture for a feature that allows reporting abuse directly in the app and the goal is to implement it for the next release of Forgejo.

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Far-right forces endanger free/libre software projects

We will not be discouraged in our fight against far-right ideologies. They are currently on the rise in many parts of the world, and we believe it is important to protect all kinds of marginalized groups. However, if you believe this does not affect your project, you are wrong. Far-right forces pose a threat to all of us.

Extreme right forces actively target members of our communities and discriminate based on ethnicity and gender, political background, sexual orientation, disabilities, nationality and faith. However diversity is an important asset in free/libre software communities and it is what makes our software great and development productive.

By targetting (Editor's note: Codeberg can't afford a spell checker) some of our most active translators, nicest designers, best developers and all other motivated contributors, they are hurting the free/libre software ecosystem as a whole.

Don't be fooled if right-wing forces promise to "promote open source" in their political agenda. This has nothing to do with the values of our movement! This is about national patriotism and protectionism, and they will happily accept splitting our community on their way.

We all know that the free/libre software ecosystem won't work this way. Every human is an integral and equally important part of it, and targetting some of our community members threatens the ecosystem as a whole.

Let's together stay strong and united against the emerging threats. We stay strong against discrimination of all kind, including but not limited to sexism, transphobia, homophobia, racism, antisemitism and ableism. And we hope that you all join us for this mission.

A big shout-out to all the projects that collect facts and resources against hate and discrimination and that have been the primary goal of these attacks. Support them if you can.

If you ever considered supporting the fight against right-wing forces, for example by joining political movements and parties, organizing protests or getting involved in online communities with this goal - now might be the best time to move ahead.

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Again, we apologize for the disruption of your work and the abusive content delivered to your mailboxes. We are doing our best to contain the situation.

We'd like to thank everyone who signaled their support in the current situation, via e-mail, Mastodon and in Matrix chats. This means a lot to us.

Thank you for your trust and support!

Your Codeberg Public Relations team

Context: Someone emailed users the BIPOC word

TRUMP: I think you have to have it, and, again, I said I'm conservative, generally speaking, I'm conservative, and even very conservative. But I'm quite liberal and getting much more liberal on health care and other things. I really say: What's the purpose of a country if you're not going to have defensive and health care?

If you can't take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it's all over. I mean, it's no good. So I'm very liberal when it comes to health care. I believe in universal health care. I believe in whatever it takes to make people well and better.

KING: So you believe, then, it's an entitlement of birth?

TRUMP: I think it is. It's an entitlement to this country, and too bad the world can't be, you know, in this country. But the fact is, it's an entitlement to this country if we're going to have a great country.

https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/10/08/trump.transcript/

!commies !schizomaxxxers

Top Drama

Relative Drama (takes into account the size of the subreddit)

autodrama: returning jobs to dramneurodivergents. Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion

We did it!

Libs ownership status: pwnd

has no threads abput this lol

Edit: as per note

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1iqwbok/defense_stocks_drop_after_trump_says_pentagon/

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1iorzko/defense_stocks_drop_after_trump_says_pentagon/

they basically turned other apps into their "Drivewise" app which is a nanny app that monitors your havits and gice you a discount for driving "safe"

https://www.allstate.com/drivewise

oh look other insurance compajoes are starting to offer similar options for peoples fitbit/smartwatchhealth info

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/09/25/an-insurance-company-wants-you-hand-over-your-fitbit-data-so-they-can-make-more-money-should-you/

surely they wont just steap it anyway through other apps like allstate did here. Reminder that most smartphones habe health data capability almost as good as smart watches now including blood o2 censors

In a bizarre turn of events, a university dormitory in China went up in flames after a student, in a moment of panic, set fire to his s*x doll to keep it hidden from his roommates. The incident took place at Hefei University of Technology in Anhui province on February 10, when the student, fearing exposure, made a rash decision that nearly resulted in disaster.

!transphobes !cuteandvalid

- 15 votes

!the_donald !project2025 !titsorgtfo

Is it true this hole forces upmarseys

And has been for 48 hours

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups#intcid=_vanity-fair-verso-hp-trending_2c8c94d5-70bd-4bb4-bb07-df0fd1d13370_popular4-1_fallback_cral-top2-2

Most Based Comments

Basedness: 🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘

I don't understand the issue. I can respond to emails from my phone, and the only people I answer to are the clients I chose. I know when I need to be actively doing work for them, and I also know when I only need to be waiting for emails to come in. Might as well use my time well.  (6)

Congrats on doing nothing for a living (-11)

Basedness: 🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘

I love this opinion that is only unpopular on Reddit. In any other work environment which can sustain telework/remote work, EVERYONE appreciates time in the office; not only for actual project collaboration, but receiving and giving REAL mentorship. (13)

I mentor people constantly. I don't need to sit in someone's office, telling them what to do, not having access to my own notes. That shit sucks rocks. (-11)

Basedness: 🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘

jokes on you, some of us never had those skills in the first place (8967)

And you're gonna stay like that if you don't do anything about it, which is part of OP's point (0)

Angriest Comments

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

The most socially inept behavior (bullying, harassment, gossiping, microagressions, etc) I've witnessed in my career has always taken place in a physical office. One thing we never hear about is how much I'm assuming harassment lawsuits took a dive during covid when we all went remote. It's very hard to get harassed and bullied remotely the way that myself and others have in an office. No one wants to put the things in writing or say the things on camera that they'd feel they could get away with in an office where it's all, "he said, she said." (4)

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

This is nonsense. It's equating correlation with causation. Guess what-most if not all of the weird homeschooled kids aren't weird because they were homeschooled. They're homeschooled because they're weird. Either they got bullied or otherwise had quirks that made it difficult for them to function in a public school environment.My husband's family was homeschooled. The one who had the most problems with bullying and such in school was already struggling-that's a large part of why they decided to do it. A couple of them that never saw the inside of a public school before high school were always totally normal socially. The homeschooling had nothing to do with it. Aside from all that, most homeschoolers get tons of socialization through co-ops and various activities.So your premise can be proved false from the start because your view of "weird homeschooled kids" is complately skewed and wrong. No doubt many of the people you perceive as "weird wfh people" have similar things going on.... (1)

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

Are they getting less social, or are less social people choosing to work from home, and more social people choosing to work on site?You could say the same thing about the homeschooled kids. Some parents homeschool BECAUSE their kid has trouble fitting in socially, because of autism or something like that. Those kids might not get much more social interaction at school, except for bullying. There is zero benefit from being bullied. I would argue that taking away an opportunity for bullying might be beneficial to the kids who would be doing the bullying. (If they just find someone else to bully, then it's a net zero.) Less opportunity for bullying at work would be beneficial to the person and the company, because the bully presumably has job duties other than bullying people. (1)

Biggest Lolcow: /u/MikeSifoda

Score: 🐮🔘🔘🔘🔘

Number of comments: 2

Average angriness: 🔘🔘🔘🔘🔘

Maximum angriness: 😡😡🔘🔘🔘

Minimum angriness: 😡🔘🔘🔘🔘

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autodrama: automating away the jobs of dramneurodivergents. Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion

As with all /r/gym top posts then this includes a w*man and has been locked by the jannies.

I work in the beauty industry and go to the gym after I'm off of work. I have to wear a full face of makeup to work due to my profession. I have very sensitive skin and my face washes are prescription. I can not put any other skincare on my face. I can only use it 2x a day or I get dry skin and a rash, it's very harsh. I'm new to working out, I'm still embarrassed to be at the gym anyways because of body dysmorphia. I feel like I look like an idiot going in with full eyeliner/eyelashes etc. and although people say that other people don't look at you at the gym, we all know that isn't true. I've been going 5x a week but I'm really embarrassed and thinking of just going on weekends when I don't work but I want to go more than that. Do people actually care or is it in my head? I don't like record myself or anything, I wear my wedding ring, I keep my head down as much as possible and I do my workouts to the best of my ability. Please help me get over this so I don't stop going. Added photo of my weight loss journey for context as to why I'm so embarrassed/ what kind of makeup I wear. (Disclaimer I got a WLS in the past to become fertile, not all natural.) since this has photos I'm tagging progress just to be safe.

Rule 1 of /r/gym is:

However they never enforce that rule for women or s - see post on r/GYM saved by heroic for a recap of the time when me and @Tardish terrorised Reddit's fitness janny clique.

Anyway this post isn't that exciting, it's the usual shitty /r/mademesmile-style comments like "Happy cake day! This is the correct mindset. 💯" and "Frick the makeup, awesome journey! Hardcore".

I saw one random comment that stood out for excessive girlbossing:

Sis, I wear makeup to the gym 4x a week. Big ol' wing eyeliner et al. You have nothing to be embarrassed, worried or anxious about. I see several other women do it too. I honestly think people are not even thinking about it; they don't care because they're absorbed with their own selves, thoughts, & reasons for being there. If they do care, well those are their own weird feelings to deal with. You just keep minding your own. You're killin' it! 💪👑

Clicked their profile (/u/WolvesOnWeed) on a hunch and found exactly what I expected:

If you want more /r/gym content then check out [WHITE KNIGHT ALERT] A f*male does the worst deadlift you've ever seen on /r/gym and a jannie melts down.

!reportmaxxers please report all these posts glorifying violence

As you will have noticed, a buffoon put the existence of hexbear on the desk of some bureaucrat at the FBI FOIA office. While this is objectively a relatively harmless happening, there exist several dangerous possible knock-on chains of effect that would lead to the compromise and arrest of tens, if not tens of millions, of active marxist revolutionaries. And just as we were nearly ready, too!

We need to bombard the FOIA office immediately with requests from all federal agencies about the off-site backup/rally point for former redditors posting in the /r/drama community.

I will not link the site here, it should be treated as a high risk cognitohazard. Our cyber warriors already know how to find it and are skilled in psychic defense tactics, everybody else, don't bother. (Seriously friends.) With any of this. This isn't for you. Forget you read this post.

DO NOT post evidence of your requests, responses from agencies or any other such materiel to HB dot net. If you do so, the operation is blown, the trolls will come and HB will get more of the worst sort of attention. > And links back to this site resulting from the operation should be considered counter-revolutionary activity on penalty of death.

DO NOT post anything as part of your requests that links to any of your online personas, usernames, etc, which might heuristically tie you back to your role in the HB digital vanguard.

NO FLEXING ON EM. LOOSE LIPS SYNC CHIPS.

https://hexbear.net/post/4200927

!metashit !anticommunists

my friend finds basically every girl his age who’s in decent shape attractive. this actually seems like the ideal way to be wired?

— Ava (@noampomsky) February 14, 2025

Turns out, the gender that can reproduce in 30 seconds instead of 9 months is wired to not be very picky when it comes to whom to frick.