“These needless accesses create expensive database queries that diminish the service quality for all of us, requires substantial amounts of work from our system administrators.”
AI scrapers hammer open-source hosts for training data and dump the bandwidth bill on volunteer sysadmins. Codeberg runs on donations and gets treated like a free buffet by companies raising billions. The people building the commons pay to feed the machines that will replace attribution with a confident paraphrase. Codeberg at least drew a line and says it will never train on your code.