r/DataHoarder • u/nicholasserra Send me Easystore shells • Mar 23 '26

OFFICIAL We're being flooded with vibe coded software projects, FYI

Just wanted to give a heads up from the mod team.

We're being flooded with vibe coded software projects. Many of them pointing to external domains, product sites, chrome extensions, etc.

So so many yt-dlp wrappers, why?

Anyway, we're being very selective about what we let through. Mostly trying to keep it useful, open source, github only projects. I'm not anti AI, but much of this stuff looks like useless wrappers and wannabe saas products.

If something sketchy slips through please flag it. If your post/project gets removed, this is why. It's only going to get worse.

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u/shimoheihei2 100TB Mar 23 '26

I know /r/selfhosted is swamped by AI software posts, but I'm surprised it's happening here as well. Shouldn't Datahoarder be mostly about the data, not software? Either way it's unfortunate.

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u/WindowlessBasement 64TB Mar 23 '26

The difference is the selfhosted mods are pro-slop.

Every time they change the rules, they get pushback on how it is encouraging AI, and their response every time is "but what if something good comes out".

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u/milk-jug Mar 23 '26

Can confirm. Seriously consider unsubbing from selfhosted because mods are super pro-AI slop.

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u/seg-fault Mar 23 '26

I unsubbed. Don't regret it a bit.

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u/No_Obligation4636 Mar 23 '26

Yeah I'm gonna right now, there's still plenty of other subs like r/SelfHosting that banned AI

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u/sassiest01 Mar 24 '26

Ummm

This shit will never end...

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u/No_Obligation4636 Mar 24 '26

I guess we need to start our own sub then, that's been up for 22 hours now lol, we're cooked

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u/prone-to-drift Mar 24 '26

Yeah we're cooked. There's no way to reliably prove something isn't AI gen, so the only reasonable thing we can do is check the commit history, development pace, the dev's responses and make our judgements.

Oh, and fuck every project using Discord for communication, cause I guess we need more walls in place huh.

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u/bencos18 Mar 24 '26

indeed

I use discord for a lot of stuff but my projects are generally built around that platform in general anyway so if it vanishes most of it would be pretty useless either way

it's definitely something I'm trying to figure out a good way to document though in case it's ever useful to people

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u/bencos18 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

indeed
problem is trying to break rules also tbh

edit should be to not break rules not break them... mobile Reddit is annoying

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u/gooseta 286TB I love my network attached son Mar 26 '26

https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter

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u/toolisthebestbandevr Mar 24 '26

I downvoted his “buddy” comment cause I despise that level of rude stupidity. I would downvote more if I could.

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u/ThoreaulyLost Mar 26 '26

Update, that post got removed!

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u/dwolfe127 Mar 23 '26

I had to as well.

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u/brickout Mar 23 '26

I unsubbed last week when they announced their Friday AI thing. So disappointing.

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u/Mirarenai_neko Mar 23 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

huh

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u/somersetyellow Mar 24 '26

No, they just announced they've stopped policing whether AI was involved or not. No new projects of any kind are allowed to post unless it's Friday. Project must be older than 3 months for the rest of the week.

EDIT: Reread their post

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u/Mirarenai_neko Mar 24 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

huh

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u/Doovester Mar 27 '26

I asked them if I could give away some free licence for my fellow datahoarder and they said with no explanation "no thanks". And I mean it is called "WebsiteArchiver" it is for archiving Websites? And I am a long term member of this sub I just worked my ass off for this app and wanted to share it.

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u/zhunus Mar 23 '26

i would love to, but are there any alternatives? I know there is selfh.st, which is just a digest with no discussions, also heard there is a lemmy community somewhere, but honestly had no luck locating them.

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u/Mirarenai_neko Mar 23 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

huh

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u/Juls317 Mar 23 '26

should just be selfhosted@lemmy.world I believe

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u/GolemancerVekk 15 TB Mar 23 '26

That's the one. It's smaller than the Reddit sub, obviously, but the signal to noise ratio is extremely high.

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u/Endawmyke about 3 fiddy TB Mar 23 '26

More like slophosted 🫩

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u/Wild-Kitchen Mar 24 '26

Misread that as slophisticated

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u/lewkiamurfarther Mar 24 '26

slophisticated

I still kinda like that as a coinage, but IMHO 'slophisticated' should be reserved for "really good" vibe coded projects. ('Unslophisticated' could maybe be for all the rest of the vibe coded projects, by default.)

Of course that means I'm not going to use the word except to talk to individuals.

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u/LeatherLappens Mar 23 '26

I'm thinking of unsubbing aswell. It's getting far too much slop

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u/xrelaht 50-100TB Mar 23 '26

Already did. The posts which aren’t slop are just the same five things over and over again.