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I’m sure you have some morally high reasons to stand against cryptocurrency, but the “illicit trade” and “evasion of sanctions” cited by sourcehut (since you seem to base your decision on it) are also what allows regular people, including LGBTQ+ people, living in sanctioned countries (which also, what a surprise, turn out to be unsafe for LGBTQ+ folk a lot of the time), to buy goods and send/receive money from abroad without being prosecuted by their governments (hi foreign agent laws! hi “extremism” and “terrorism” laws!).
I’m sorry, anti-war transgender person stuck in Russia, but from our moral stance, you shouldn’t be able to purchase HRT from a lab using your XMR wallet. nor should your friend be able to pay for their foreign VPN VDS that they use to bypass the internet restrictions in USDT. the projects you used for this were hosted on Codeberg and not some other platform? well, too bad, they’ll have to go someplace else that minds your existence or is welcoming to cryptocurrency as a whole, and you will wait. you and the tools you use will move to a greedy corporate hosting that is likely to impose its own restrictions on you in the future, or, even better, move to a less reliable self-hosted option, one per each tool to make it less maintainable and less accessible.
by taking this stance, at least from my perspective, you’re just projecting your morally high delusion of dirty illicit 3rd world crypto scammers that are damaging the moral purity of Codeberg by… hosting code for their projects here?! which, mind you, almost all the time will just contain tools, tools to do good or bad. do you want to ban BitTorrent-related projects from Codeberg next because they are “mostly used to get illegal access to unlicensed digital goods and services (piracy)” and also take up world bandwidth and compute? how about banning YouTube downloaders after those? hey, let’s make it clear that Codeberg will not stand a single repo on its platform that involves encrypted messaging: you know only criminals use Matrix, right?
I’m sure you have some morally high reasons to stand against cryptocurrency, but the “illicit trade” and “evasion of sanctions” cited by sourcehut (since you seem to base your decision on it) are also what allows regular people, including LGBTQ+ people, living in sanctioned countries (which also, what a surprise, turn out to be unsafe for LGBTQ+ folk a lot of the time), to buy goods and send/receive money from abroad without being prosecuted by their governments (hi foreign agent laws! hi “extremism” and “terrorism” laws!).
I’m sorry, anti-war transgender person stuck in Russia, but from our moral stance, you shouldn’t be able to purchase HRT from a lab using your XMR wallet. nor should your friend be able to pay for their foreign VPN VDS that they use to bypass the internet restrictions in USDT. the projects you used for this were hosted on Codeberg and not some other platform? well, too bad, they’ll have to go someplace else that minds your existence or is welcoming to cryptocurrency as a whole, and you will wait. you and the tools you use will move to a greedy corporate hosting that is likely to impose its own restrictions on you in the future, or, even better, move to a less reliable self-hosted option, one per each tool to make it less maintainable and less accessible.
by taking this stance, at least from my perspective, you’re just projecting your morally high delusion of dirty illicit 3rd world crypto scammers that are damaging the moral purity of Codeberg by… hosting code for their projects here?! which, mind you, almost all the time will just contain tools, *tools* to do good or bad. do you want to ban BitTorrent-related projects from Codeberg next because they are “mostly used to get illegal access to unlicensed digital goods and services (piracy)” and also take up world bandwidth and compute? how about banning YouTube downloaders after those? hey, let’s make it clear that Codeberg will not stand a single repo on its platform that involves encrypted messaging: you know only criminals use Matrix, right?
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