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PSA Huggingface is scraping GitHub (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceCode/in-the-stack

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Get off of Github if you think this is a problem 🤷 There are alternatives like Forgejo (Codeberg), Gitlab, and Radicle (decentralised).

[–] cultist@feddit.dk 2 points 16 hours ago

I am personally on SourceHut, but do have a codeberg account.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those are obviously scraped as well?

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 17 hours ago

Sure, but they can't discover them all. Especially radicle is not easy to crawl, due to it's decentralised nature. It can even be hosted on TOR and I2P