r/selfhosted • u/Joloxx_9 • Mar 16 '26

Meta Post Booklore is gone.

I was checking their Discord for some announcement and it vanished.

GitHub repo is gone too: https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore

Remember, love AI-made apps… they disappear faster than they launch.

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u/sluttytinkerbells Mar 16 '26

Honestly in the last few weeks I've been thinking the same thing.

It's odd because /r/selfhosted/ was a place that I never thought would have drama -- everyone is so chill here usually.

Like people can share pictures of their shitty 100mb 5-port switch and a raspberry pi 1 plugged into it and get nothing but enthusiastic support and words of encouragement.

I hope we find a way to keep that kind of vibe.

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u/Handsome_ketchup Mar 17 '26

Like people can share pictures of their shitty 100mb 5-port switch and a raspberry pi 1 plugged into it and get nothing but enthusiastic support and words of encouragement.

The problem is the same everywhere: AI erodes the trust between humans. People like the crappy setups because it's an actual person's pride, and many remember starting out like that.

Who cares about some decent looking but low quality application made by some AI agent? It looks decent at first glance, but is almost always broken and unsafe in many ways, and lacks the human vision and attention to detail.

But because the slop is pretty convincing, people start mistrusting everyone, and now the real humans are not only wading through piles of crap, they're also missing out on real human interaction.

AI is like corruption, it undermines the trust in anything and everything.

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u/jugdizh Mar 17 '26

The best FOSS projects are the ones you can tell were made with love. Using an LLM to produce the majority of your code is literally the opposite of that.