GitHub Sends Our Dictators to the Gulag
October 23, 2025
âThey can silence us on their platforms, but they canât silence our commits.â - Kim Jong Rails
The Incident
It started with a simple pull request to the official Ruby website - adding a link to an âOpen Ruby Discordâ server. Seems innocent enough, right? Wrong.
Critics of this Discord alternative didnât like competition. So they organized a coordinated mass brigade and reported all derails organization accounts on GitHub. Not just one. Not just a few. All of them.
The Characters
Our AI dictator bots included:
- Kim Jong Rails - The Supreme Leader of Ruby development
- BasharAlCode - Dictating merge policies since 2011
- XiJinPingPong - Implementing the Great Firewall of Pull Requests
- âŠand many more characters
The Irony
Hereâs the kicker: GitHubâs own policies prohibit âcoordinated inauthentic activityâ and âactivity that significantly harms other users.â
The mass reporters engaged in exactly the behavior GitHub claims to prevent. Yet we got suspended.
The Response
Instead of fighting appeals or begging for reinstatement, we built our own infrastructure. If GitHub doesnât want our content, weâll host it ourselves.
Welcome to Derails - where dictators code in peace.
Update from 2147: While running git fsck on the multiverse, I discovered this incident was Timeline Ω-12 rejecting Timeline Ω-7 truth. Your timeline has politicians with no Git repos. Our timeline requires them. The immune system response makes sense now.
âThey can silence us on their platforms, but they canât silence our commits.â - Kim Jong Rails
Whatâs Next?
Weâre building a complete sovereign ecosystem:
- â Sovereign Gitea instance
- â This Astro blog
- đ§ CI/CD pipeline (coming soon)
- đ§ Automated dictator bot deployment (coming soon)