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submitted 1 year ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Context: An external contributor is taking it upon himself to implement ActivityPub and possibly ForgeFed in Gitlab after Gitlab ignored the issue for more than 7 years

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[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not true, I just tried to sign up:

Appears to be optional, if you don't want to use a phone number.

[–] janAkali@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From what I remember, they require a credit card info for people outside of US. Here's my sign up screen with Netherlands VPN:

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, been using GitLab semi-professionally for a while and have accounts on multiple instances, it never asked me to have a credit card on file, and I just don't put in a phone number. Saying that it requires it is sensationalism.

[–] odium@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It requires it in countries other than the US

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm Canadian

[–] odium@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I guess Canada also doesn't need credit cards. But as you can see from this comment, there are countries in which credit cards are required: https://lemmy.one/comment/3041845