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Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure Discussion & Question Moderation Big tech (www.theregister.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/72942555

Meanwhile on reddit.

Honestly kind of sounds like lemmy.world mods tho...

edit ahaha lemmy.world's fediverse community locked discussion about this, of course they did..

To get a project featured on the subreddit, developers now need to show it has been actively maintained for at least a year, has an established community, and has at least three contributors, give or take. Student projects such as note-taking apps and PDF viewers aren't welcome either, and developers can no longer use the subreddit to find people willing to help maintain their software.

That creates a chicken-and-egg problem for independent developers, who apparently need an established community before they can use an open source forum to find one. Even projects with no AI involvement could fall foul of the rules. One Reddit user pointed out that their nine-year-old project, which has more than 300 GitHub stars and dozens of resolved issues, would no longer qualify because they're its sole contributor.

The moderator also imposed a minimum Reddit account age of one year and requires significant prior contributions. Anyone who attempts to post and then contacts the moderators seeking an exception risks being permanently banned and muted.

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I love the rss reader I've been having deepseek v4 flash make for me, I keep context low, use the cheap subs for commandcode and opencode go, havent hit my weekly limits using a hermes agent, prob just needed one 10$ a month sub. Still not there on mobile but it's all I use on desktop and I tried every rss reader out there and only really liked frirss, a frontend for freshrss, but it still didn't fit my needs. This one functions so well, i'm genuinely suprised because it was never meant to be good, just a test, and I've ended up with something I genuinely love using. Idk I hate ai taking jobs but no one was making this rss reader for me for 10$ a month.

Why is the existence of this project an issue because AI was used, it works and works well for me better than any other rss reader I've used. It wouldn't exist otherwise and I would be having a worse experience. What it made in 2 days is better than I could've hoped to achieve in months and my goal isn't to be a dev, it's to use the app I have in my head. To have the convenience I am seeking, which is why I seek out opensource apps in the first place. It's never stable, always buggy, long before AI, but it fulfils my need good enough for free...

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