Interesting. Two things stand out to me:

1. dang specifically posted a comment saying the rule has been around for _years_ [1]

2. I browsed the top upvoted comments and they seem to almost universally lean towards this being a good thing.

That's about what I would of expected. Although the "being around for years" thing was news to me and doesn't really make the OP's argument a good comparison for Codeberg's case.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341726