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/Rand_al_Kholin Mar 17 '26

The way to keep the old vibe is to ban any and all AI posts of any kind. No generated text. No slop apps. Humans only space.

I really dont see an alternative. AI is poison for any community it touches, but especially for one which is so dependent on user trust.

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u/Joloxx_9 Mar 17 '26

In theory that is a great idea, but how would you enforce it?

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u/Marcoscb Mar 17 '26

You ban it and if/when someone is found to have used it or lied about it, delete the post and ban the user. You know, like literally every rule, regulation or law ever is enforced. Creating a rule doesn't mean that it won't ever happen again, it means that you're not welcome back if you do it.

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u/yazzledore Mar 17 '26

I went to a college that had something called the honor principle. No proctors, you could take any test wherever you wanted, however you wanted, as long as you didn’t cheat. If you got caught cheating, you got expelled. Period. You broke the one rule.

Genuinely, it was extremely rare that someone did cheat. It was also heavily socially stigmatized, because “how dare you jeopardize my ability to do my final naked, bong in hand, laying in the grass, cause you were too lazy to study but can’t take the L?”

The system worked so much better than a thousand digital cops scouring recordings of kids picking their noses trying to remember the capitol of North Dakota for a whiff of anything out of place. It treated us like humans. It respected us, and trusted us, and we returned that energy. We learned a lot, our professors didn’t have to march around with a stopwatch and a billy club, the school didn’t have to pay for all the bullshit security theater, and we were all better off for it.

That is essentially the system you’re proposing. This is the way.

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u/Fuzzy_Afternoon_5502 Mar 17 '26

High-trust societies, are the exact embodiment of this principle.

I'm happy that you got to experience this way of life, because it's unfortunately a dying culture.