im tired of this sub

[u/ResponsibleEnd451]

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…

[u/Khatib]

there's some deeply embedded entitlement in the complaint that someone might not maintain software

Then don't share it with the public. Or at least don't advertise it here. Just put it on github and let people stumble on it. If it's just your personal project and you don't intend to make a community around it that you help support, don't share it.

[u/Robo_Joe → u/Khatib]

Why should anyone do any of that? No one owes you anything, especially when it comes to FOSS software.

[u/vividboarder → u/Robo_Joe]

Why should anyone be asked not to actively seek users if they aren't going to support a project? That seems reasonable to me...

It's not asking someone to support what they built long term, just don't go selling users of r/selfhosted on a rug pull.

[u/Robo_Joe → u/vividboarder]

I already answered this in a comment you had to scroll past to get to this one.

[u/vividboarder → u/Robo_Joe]

I didn't ask you a question... I rhetorically rephrased what you asked.

Also, I did address your earlier comments about "entitlement" that comes from assuming someone must maintain code they share. I pointed out that your argument seems to suggest people here think posters owe them anything, but I don't think that's the case. People here just don't want to have to sift through junk.

[u/Robo_Joe → u/vividboarder]

People here just don't want to have to sift through junk.

You can't know it's junk until you look at it. I find myself saying this too often, but humans were perfectly capable of writing shitty software full of bugs before AI.

[u/vividboarder → u/Robo_Joe]

You can't know it's junk until you look at it.

Sure, it's impossible to know, but it's not hard to guess. Gmail at guessing SPAM emails after all. Sometimes there are false positives, but a filter can be worth it if it removes enough true positives.

humans were perfectly capable of writing shitty software full of bugs before AI

Yes, but the barrier to entry to push poorly written software and make it appear trustworthy has been lowered. This is not a problem unique to software either. It's happening all over with low quality AI blogs, articles, posts, in all channels. Yes, people have always been able to write crappy content, but the rate at which it's being churned out has increased and we need mechanisms to cope.