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I have an online acquaintance that maintains a very small and not widely used open-source project and the amount of (what we assume to be) automated AI submissions* they have to wade through is kinda wild given the very small number of contributors and users the thing has. It's gotta be clogging up these big projects like a DDoS attack.

*"Automated" as in bots and "AI submissions" as in ai-generated code

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I find that by being on codeberg instead of github i tune out a lot of the noise.

Among Git hosters, SourceHut is perhaps the safest one when it comes to automated submissions. Unlike Codeberg, they also take a stance and I think some measures against LLM scraping. However, the barrier to collaboration is higher, and unless you self-host it is a paid service (only for project author, not collaborators).

SourceHut has a crazy dude in charge. I'm not going there.

If no one calls you crazy you are doing something wrong. Crazy in what way?

maybe its all the stallman drama?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41837782

What about it?

when I see the username, thats one of the threads that comes to mind so I searched for it.

Which username and how is it related?

Edit: I see, interesting. Not sure it makes me change my opinion on the service but might explain what the other commenter meant.

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