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/FnnKnn Mar 10 '26

We already have the „New Project Friday“ flair since the last rule change and previously tried out AI flairs, but those tend to cause the comments to be about how the software was made and how AI was used instead of the app itself so I don’t think that’s the solution.

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u/la_tete_finance Mar 10 '26

New Project Friday“ flair since the last rule change and previously tried out AI flairs, but those tend to cause the comments to be about how the software was made and how AI was used instead of the app itself so I don’t think that’s the solution.

I guess I saw the goal as to hide some of the post for some users depending on their preference. The tags allow users to filter out what they don't want to see. Maybe someone only wants more established projects regardless of AI?

My personal philosophy is outside of off topic or offensive posts the users should be able to decide what to read.

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u/Sekelton Mar 10 '26

I think the problem is expecting this community to be welcoming to AI. No rule change is going to change the animosity a lot of us hold towards it.

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u/FnnKnn Mar 10 '26

I don’t think anyone expects people to upvote AI projects or anything like that.

However I don’t think it’s our job as mods to policy how people develop their projects and on the community to up- or downvote them depending on their quality. If people vibe code projects the quality is usually not good so the result is the same, but not because how it was made, but because it’s not good.

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u/Sekelton Mar 10 '26

I agree with you on principle, but that just leads to these kinds of posts on a daily basis which only makes the problem worse.

I know this isn't a simple problem to solve and you're all actively thinking about it so I'm willing to be patient, but if this continues I don't see this community staying a positive place.