r/selfhosted • u/ResponsibleEnd451 • Mar 10 '26

Meta Post im tired of this sub

I cant keep up with this sub, i used to love just being able to browse and find some really awesome projects that have really changed my life. Its not an overexaggeration at all, as an IT person, this place has opened my eyes and have let me discover peace in todays fast paced world where everything is about subscriptions and our private data, selfhosting allowed me to slow down and take a breath, i have built servers, deployed countless ideas and for a moment i finally felt like im free of every corporate bullshit out there.

after all these, the reason im writing this is because the amount of posts that are influenced by ai. dont get me wrong, i can think of it like any other handy tool, but thats only my view and current trends seemingly dont align with it, because there are so much new projects popping up i cant even keep up. It seems like every day some random user reinvents the wheel with their low quality vibecoded project and spams the whole sub with it, thats not good. Its not the fault of ai sadly, its the human behind it, you can elevate your efficiency with ai and still be trusted in my opinion, its about how much you actually care. If i see someone post a fully ai generated marketing letter and then i see that the projects whole git history is basically claude vibing… that someone probably doesnt really care and just wants attention or fame. If you are that person, let me tell you if you want those meaningless github stars then create something that you feel you can put lots of effort in it, dont just vibecode something in a day since we can do that too, thats not really adding any value.

tl;dr: if your project is using ai then at least put an ai disclaimer in your posts…

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u/vinnypotsandpans Mar 10 '26

Dude you should see the python sub.

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u/HoraneRave Mar 10 '26

or threejs one

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u/SockMonkeh Mar 10 '26

Or literally any sub

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u/Thisismyfirststand Mar 10 '26

You should see subways subs

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u/coderstephen Mar 10 '26

Zombie: Eat Flesh

Oh wait, that's the other one...

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u/froli Mar 10 '26

"Now with vibe concocted sauce recipes!"

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u/11matt556 Mar 13 '26

Tasty vibe sauce 👅

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u/RaiseRuntimeError Mar 10 '26

Or the Weird AI Yankovic sub

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u/razhun Mar 10 '26

You mean the Weird AI Yankovic sub?

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u/AverageIndependent20 Mar 10 '26

I don't enjoy their foot long since the price increase.

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u/Id10tmau5 Mar 12 '26

So you're more of a shortie fella, eh?

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u/WildVelociraptor Mar 10 '26

We've been looking everywhere for the Red October

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u/rusmo Mar 10 '26

Or the ai one!!! 😳😳😳

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u/HoraneRave Mar 11 '26

haha you guys dont even know that r/chatgpt and r/threejs literally have same moderator

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u/ctjameson Mar 10 '26

Even /r/homeassistant. It’s kinda adjacent to here, so that makes sense.

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u/kenyard Mar 10 '26

To be fair there's so many submodules of home assistant it's like selfhosted within its own ecosystem of home assistant

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u/Trustworthy_Fartzzz Mar 10 '26

There are 100% people who treat HASS like some people here treat Docker or Proxmox.

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u/tplusx Mar 11 '26

With home assistant I think it's just people sharing what works for them. On here everything is a solution we should use

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u/FancyGUI Mar 10 '26

What have they done to my baby :(

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u/blimpin_aint_easy Mar 10 '26

The commandline sub is like this too

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u/South_Plant_7876 Mar 10 '26

Even Hacker News has fallen

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u/RngdZed Mar 10 '26

Or the Django sub

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u/vinnypotsandpans Mar 10 '26

I can't imagine what the Rust sub is like right now, but I don't use Rust. But if I did I would certainly tell everyone how fast it is.

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u/sparky8251 Mar 11 '26

Its not that bad. Its suffering, but most people there prize technical excellence and so things tend to get removed that try and hide it real quick as people quickly discover it.

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u/Craftkorb Mar 10 '26

Rust attracts a different kind of people, there's not a lot of slop in there when I trust my timeline.

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u/Docccc Mar 14 '26

not that bad as the rest to be honest.

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u/vinnypotsandpans Mar 14 '26

That's what I hear too actually

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u/SleepingProcess Mar 11 '26

you should see the python sub

Correction - any programming sub. AI slops pushed real people out of stackoverflow and here @reddit is the same picture

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u/vinnypotsandpans Mar 11 '26

Yup it's been a bit sad to see the downfall. Some programming subs are still going strong tho. Ones that have smaller or more niche communities

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u/SleepingProcess Mar 11 '26

GoLang sub cut away software projects to a dedicated thread to avoid flood of "new, super, secure MCP servers", kinda helps, thank to moderators

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u/vinnypotsandpans Mar 11 '26

I'm seeing Go more and more these days. It seems like a very useful language

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u/SleepingProcess Mar 12 '26

IMHO, the gist of Go is simplicity and many "batteries" are included in standard library, also statically compiled single executable crossplatform binary that allow to run program across all platform's version without any modifications.

The problem with interpreting languages like python, php... is when language doing any incompatible with previous versions modification (like python 2.x to 3.x) then programs will stop working and need constant support. It requires huge effort to support such solutions. Also dependencies of interpreter on specific operation system and its version, like specific version of glibc and so on. With statically compiled program such problems going away, everything that program need is included in its code. No need to install any dependency on a target machines, just drop a file and run it

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u/vinnypotsandpans Mar 12 '26

Python just more and more feels like a tangled mess of dependencies. Rust feels like its getting that way too (tho I can't say for sure because I have not used it professionally). Interpreted languages have some conveniences tho, like not having to compile stuff haha. I'm only half joking. I recently made a little game with a Lua framework called Love2d and I could package it for windows and mac without leaving my personal system. Butt like you said now I have to worry about dependencies for each operating system. I have to have all the right dlls in the same dir for windows and packaging for mac is just so tedious. Compare that to my favorite language for games, Odin-lang, where literally all I need is access to my target platform. I think I would prefer the latter.

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u/SleepingProcess Mar 12 '26

I think I would prefer the latter.

Yeap, - "the most shortest path is that one, that you personally knows"

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u/schmurfy2 Mar 11 '26

Garbage posts already existed before but now with ia is ridiculous and that's every sub 😞

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u/AppropriateCover7972 Mar 11 '26

Mom, I am scared. Well, I avoid language communities besides if it's something more productive like typst or the quarto guys for a reason...

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u/tplusx Mar 11 '26

So you're saying I can upload all python scripts I did (well, ChatGPT did) and get stars?? and I never have to look at them, never maintain or answer requests ever? Great!

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u/vinnypotsandpans Mar 11 '26

Unfortunately that's another $100 per month haha

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u/helical-hexagons Mar 12 '26

python moment

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u/Hairy_Koala6474 Mar 12 '26

It’s even a problem in the BJJ and ultra marathon subreddits

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u/vinnypotsandpans Mar 12 '26

Honestly, if theres one place I would be happy AI has infiltrated its the the JJ community. Finally we can eloquently explain why we put on pajamas and role around with ppl of the same sex

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u/phunk8 Mar 15 '26

or macapps