Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure
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Why does it bother you so much that people talk about something you don’t like in a place where people are allowed to talk about things?
There’s a block button for made for just this thing.
no. by this logic i should go post porn in c/catloaf. there are specific communities for specific purposes, if you're posting in the wrong community you're liable to get your shit removed with prejudice. mods have a 'block' button, too.
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no. by this logic i should go post porn in c/catloaf. there are specific communities for specific purposes, if you're posting in the wrong community you're liable to get your shit removed with prejudice. mods have a 'block' button, too.
I agree with OP
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I agree with OP
i'll bear your preferences in mind in my future decision making
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Meanwhile on reddit.
Honestly kind of sounds like lemmy.world mods like Jordan Lund tho...
To get a project featured on the subreddit, developers now need to show it has been actively maintained for at least a year, has an established community, and has at least three contributors, give or take. Student projects such as note-taking apps and PDF viewers aren't welcome either, and developers can no longer use the subreddit to find people willing to help maintain their software.
That creates a chicken-and-egg problem for independent developers, who apparently need an established community before they can use an open source forum to find one. Even projects with no AI involvement could fall foul of the rules. One Reddit user pointed out that their nine-year-old project, which has more than 300 GitHub stars and dozens of resolved issues, would no longer qualify because they're its sole contributor.
The moderator also imposed a minimum Reddit account age of one year and requires significant prior contributions. Anyone who attempts to post and then contacts the moderators seeking an exception risks being permanently banned and muted.

Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure
New rules also shut out solo developers, fledgling projects, and anyone who doesn't speak English
theregister (www.theregister.com)
Correction they did not ban AI slop, they banned everything that could possibly be related to AI. Including Linux.
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Why does it bother you so much that people talk about something you don’t like in a place where people are allowed to talk about things?
There’s a block button for made for just this thing.
Yeah, that's why I blocked the r
ddit communities
But we're not in one, are we -
Meanwhile on reddit.
Honestly kind of sounds like lemmy.world mods like Jordan Lund tho...
To get a project featured on the subreddit, developers now need to show it has been actively maintained for at least a year, has an established community, and has at least three contributors, give or take. Student projects such as note-taking apps and PDF viewers aren't welcome either, and developers can no longer use the subreddit to find people willing to help maintain their software.
That creates a chicken-and-egg problem for independent developers, who apparently need an established community before they can use an open source forum to find one. Even projects with no AI involvement could fall foul of the rules. One Reddit user pointed out that their nine-year-old project, which has more than 300 GitHub stars and dozens of resolved issues, would no longer qualify because they're its sole contributor.
The moderator also imposed a minimum Reddit account age of one year and requires significant prior contributions. Anyone who attempts to post and then contacts the moderators seeking an exception risks being permanently banned and muted.

Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure
New rules also shut out solo developers, fledgling projects, and anyone who doesn't speak English
theregister (www.theregister.com)
and has at least three contributors, give or take
You can't make a minimum approximate. Does two contributors count? Just for some, but not others? This just gives them more leeway to include bias in the decision to ban someone
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Student projects such as note-taking apps and PDF viewers
Are PDF viewers a common student project? I always assumed the file standard must be a labyrinthine mess given all the features they've crammed into it over the years. Or is there some popular library that takes 99% of the work out of it?
Oh yeah, the PDF standard runs over 1000 pages and is a minefield of potential vulnerabilities and implementation errors. I would not point any student in that direction.
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Yeah, that's why I blocked the r
ddit communities
But we're not in one, are weAwwww… poor thing!!
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It has everything to do with the Fediverse as this is precisely the kind of problem the Fediverse was designed to minimize and grapple with, so how that problem is evolving in the corporate social media world is directly relevant to the Fediverse even though it is not part of it, the failure of corporate social media to grapple with these problems elucidates why and how we are trying to solve those problems on the Fediverse best in some ways.
For example we can compare the problematic behavior of Lemmy.World mods on the politics and world news communities to the problematic behavior of Reddit in this case and see a clear resonance that makes it easier to address the forms of these problems on the Fediverse more confidently.
I disagree.
The article you linked is about Reddit. We aren’t Reddit. If it was drawing direct comparisons between us and Reddit, I’d allow it, but it’s just about Reddit and there are other more Reddit-centric communities where this would be a better fit.
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Meanwhile on reddit.
Honestly kind of sounds like lemmy.world mods like Jordan Lund tho...
To get a project featured on the subreddit, developers now need to show it has been actively maintained for at least a year, has an established community, and has at least three contributors, give or take. Student projects such as note-taking apps and PDF viewers aren't welcome either, and developers can no longer use the subreddit to find people willing to help maintain their software.
That creates a chicken-and-egg problem for independent developers, who apparently need an established community before they can use an open source forum to find one. Even projects with no AI involvement could fall foul of the rules. One Reddit user pointed out that their nine-year-old project, which has more than 300 GitHub stars and dozens of resolved issues, would no longer qualify because they're its sole contributor.
The moderator also imposed a minimum Reddit account age of one year and requires significant prior contributions. Anyone who attempts to post and then contacts the moderators seeking an exception risks being permanently banned and muted.

Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure
New rules also shut out solo developers, fledgling projects, and anyone who doesn't speak English
theregister (www.theregister.com)
This article is solely about Reddit which is not the purpose of this community. Please use this community to discuss the fediverse.
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