A sad day for emulation and open source advocates, and a reminder that Nintendo can and will destroy you if they see fit.

Hopefully their works will live in the saved repos just as ReVanced was able to live on after YouTube shut the original project down.

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    – A wild Codeberg appeared. –

    Codeberg is a collaboration platform providing Git hosting and services for free and open source software, content and projects.

    Website: Codeberg.org


    The organization selected the European Union for their headquarters and computer infrastructure, due to members’ concerns that a software project repository hosted in the United States could be removed if a malicious actor made bad faith copyright claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

    Wikipedia: Codeberg e.V.


    In June 2022 the Software Freedom Conservancy’s “Give Up Github” campaign (in response to the GitHub Copilot licensing controversy) promoted Codeberg as an alternative to GitHub.

    Conservancy: Give Up GitHub!