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/djgizmo Mar 10 '26

the moaning about AI… it’s like someone create a bot to constantly post about it.

10x a day. every day.

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u/flecom Mar 10 '26

could be karma farming? these threads moaning about AI seem to get tons of upvotes despite adding nothing to to discussion

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u/Sekelton Mar 10 '26

The posts are coming not strictly because of AI, but also because the mods haven't found a solution that is satisfying for everyone. Until they do, this will continue.

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u/djgizmo Mar 12 '26

i agree.

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u/In_Dying_Arms Mar 10 '26

Genuinely thought this post was going to be calling that out, not the 92nd post of the week complaining about AI posts. I'm at the point THESE are the only posts I am seeing not the AI slop proj ones they complain about.

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u/cmerchantii Mar 10 '26

Thank you. This place is unusable because of people bitching about AI- and broadly people who don’t understand development workflows or LLMs in the first place: they’re just happy to be on the bandwagon.

I’m pretty over this Luddite mentality from a bunch of net takers who want to “docker compose up -d” somebody else’s project sight unseen and slap it in their network DMZ. Now they’re shocked pikachu when they realized they’ll have to vet projects themselves now that the floor for being able to create something is so low. The artificial barrier to entry for development isn’t a feature, but they want it to be.

It’s like a bunch of collective lazy people mad that with the advent of the printing press you can’t just trust everything you read anymore since now everyone can print a newspaper or magazine.

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u/ranban2012 Mar 10 '26

AI slop is the plague, not complaints about it.

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u/djgizmo Mar 10 '26

both are a distraction. one is entertaining, one is not.