Mastodawn

Sorry for doomerposting... But I think AI slop has killed whatever tiny shreds of passion for the homelab space that I had left. Every other post on r/selfhosted now starts with "I built..." which basically translates to "Claude code built". 50% of those "self-built" projects are for personal use and niche use cases (fine by me), but the other half has the audacity to ask for contributors, donations, testers and offer "business pricing" for their slop. I've now seen at least two self hostable projects go up in flames because of the slop, and many more will probably follow.

Don't get me wrong, I still self host most of my services (because fuck big tech) but because the space is now inundated by LLM-generated garbage, I've lost all interest in enganing with it online.

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ChloeCrimson Mar 14

@notthebee I‘ve been very active for a few years on r/selfhosted and r/datahoarder but that ended quite some time before the age of slop

From what I remember, this could very well be a bubble that concentrates on Reddit. I‘d be genuinely curious if the accounts posting about that are new, and if not, how large the percentage of „old“/„established“ is

I got a lot of ideas and help from there back when I started and hearing what you say makes me kinda sad tbh. I really hope this is a bubble that bursts sooner rather than later and people come to their senses

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Atemu Mar 14

@chloecrimson @notthebee

Does anyone with a proper interest in independence from fascist tech still use Reddit? (as in: browse, engage with others) Seems kinda like an odd place to hang out with that sort of preference.

I'd have expected the majority of quality contributors to have left in mid 2023 – whether for #lemmy or for good.
Though I wouldn't know given I'm included in that set ^^'

I can recommend getting off Reddit regardless though; one of the best decisions in my life probably.

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ChloeCrimson

@Atemu @notthebee There’s still a lot of knowledge in these subreddits, I could understand anyone making an account just for that

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Atemu Mar 14

@chloecrimson @notthebee

Do you mean knowledge as in "knowledgeable people are there and contribute new information" or historical information from before most knowledgeable people left?

I too "use" Reddit for the latter purpose via my search engine but I don't really consider that to be me using Reddit as a platform. I just read the existing content (usually from many years ago) – through a proxy front-end no less.
IME it's rare to come across a post without redacted comments these days.

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ChloeCrimson Mar 14

@Atemu @notthebee I know that there’s historical data and I’d wager (hope?) that there are still people on there that can and do contribute useful information

The amount of posts in the genre of „I have this weird issue with the motherboard, anyone got an idea“ to „yes, here’s the github repo for the exploit that you need to fix this“ was at least astonishing once upon a time. I hope that at least some of these people stayed

Back when Reddit pulled the plug on third party clients, the datahoarder subreddit was talking about options but idk what became of that