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Has anyone seen a community for software announcements which bans slopcoded submissions? Discussion & Question Fediverse (piefed.zip)
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Are there any communities you're aware of which are suitable for software release announcements and which take a "no slopcode" stance?

Recently, several communities to which software project release announcements are posted have been swamped by slopcoded submissions such that it drowns out the non-slop stuff. These posts are usually one-off, short-lived, largely incomplete projects seeking free labor to QA, complete, and make usable something generated almost entirely by Claude, often by someone who admits they don't know how to program themselves. These largely don't even bother to write the post content themselves, but also have AI generate it. A couple of posters repeatedly repost the same basic post, trying to get other people to pick up the skeleton and turn it into a real project. Thankfully, these are pretty easy to identify at the moment because they generally take the same form: "Hi I'm X, and (I'm the author of/I've been building) Y, (description of software). (Bullet list of features). (Caveat about incompleteness "80%!!"). (Appeal for testers/contributors/ideas)."

I'm hoping to find a community which is not specifically focused on anti-AI topics, but on software that happens to be human-coded: where it's in the community rules, not the title.

There are a metric ton of software-related communities across the fediverse; there are a lot of places for slopcoders to post their projects -- are there any software communities which have rules against slop postings?

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[–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Well i shared news on a fediderse software as Castodon.

It was made with AI but the code was reviewed by some devs and i tought it could attract any devs interested.

And later, i imagined once the team is big enough, they would remove the use of AI.

In fact, the project was dead and this person wanted to continue it but they didn't have any programming skill. Later some devs joined them.

Here i promote some fediverse software, so some people can give their time. :3

Another use case, deaf people heavily use AI for writing or communicating in their daily life.

The last one, Mozilla also use AI to review their code and improve security.

So to reply to your post, I'm against AI. But i also recognize that in some case it helped people.

This community is about the fediverse and we have flair for AI software (vibe coding) that you can use to filter them. You can block some flair. Piefed also allow you to flag AI content or find bot.

As for other community with those rules, i don't know. I think it depends on staff free time because we would have to check every content posted in our community with you.

But, maybe you can create your own community where you filter yourself those software and apply those rules.

As for myself, i do my best and try some middle ground. I weight the pros and cons

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    You should be able to share your projects; and anyone who wants to use them should do so. Diversity is good. I'd just like a feed where it's filtered out. If I thought a tag would be both acceptable and enforceable, that'd work too. A community would still have to add a rule and maintainers would have to enforce it for it to be useful.

    I wanted to survey for existing communities before considering starting Yet Another community. Plus, moderation is a tiresome, thankless job, so I'd rather someone else be doing it. I low-key hate bossing people around.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I understand, that's not an easy job being modo. 🥹

    I'm not bossing people around, i try to create a framework for discussion, that's what i enjoy the most along sharing content that i love.

    A community would still have to add a rule and maintainers would have to enforce it for it to be useful

    True. 😅

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I’m not bossing people around

    Oh! I didn't mean it þat way. Not all mods are power-hungry and petty -- some of my best friends are mods ;-). I meant, enforcing community rules is what's required of you as a mod, for a popular, well-moderated community.

    I meant "bossing people around" in þat it's what it feels like to me when I have to do it. I've got some matrix chat rooms for some of my FOSS projects, and moderating and kicking people who are þere just to cause trouble is my least favorite part of admining þem.

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