Worth calling out 3 years ago SWEs were also 10-15 years out from being automated.

Things change very fast nowadays.

Probably the right decision given there's no way to truly tell what level of AI generation or effort within the project itself with AI has taken place.

I understand the willingness to ban low effort low quality one shot projects, but given most software nowadays incorporating some level of LLMs, I can't ever see a blanket ban working out anywhere.

I wouldn't be surprised if they depreciated this at the same time, it's just less known about so wasn't included in the announcement.

It's impossible, I'll never understand why anti ai repos draw such a hard line instead of saying hey we won't even look at 1000+ LOC PRs or design reworks with no discussion.

Both of those are pretty reasonable policies that will kill most of the fly by AI requests.

This is a pretty solid list, besides Code Quality. Most of the links there are user error. It's akin to blaming a Junior dev for breaking production imo and undermines the entire page.

Anyone have any recommendations?

I think the goal here is to get the general population off Discord and moved into a more open platform.

IRC is great but I can't see the average user using it unfortunately. Every platform has its own goal, but the ultimate community goal is whatever pushes us to an open social space is a net positive imo!

Note private data is now on alpha, it released last week.

Colibri to my knowledge is basically doing public chats until private spaces are in a better spot then doing private spaces for private groups.

Roomy.space is another one of these who built their own private spaces on atproto and would be worth checking out.

Also Atproto isn't inherently a bad place for this since it can be a hybrid system of on or off protocol, or using their upcoming permissioned data spaces for private data.

It sounds like you're looking for Mbin. But I'm curious, do you want both mastadon and Lemmy combined into a singular feed? Would you be opposed to having your Mastadon feed as a form of "Community" that fits into the normal feed as its own community?

I think the lexicon requirement certainly leads to a more polished look as you don't have to worry about custom interactions across multiple platforms, interoperability is basically baked in (given it's built to begin with).

It's quite nice I've been working in it quite a lot. A lot of people here tend to get into the "my protocol is better" arguments but honestly both sides have the same ultimate goal, each has its quirks.

Note on the variety, a lot of these like Mu is re-using the bluesky lexicon so it's effectively like a Mastadon Client. Same goes for Offprint, Leaflet, Pckt they all use the same Standard Site lexicon so they're effectively clients with some frontend niceties built in and maybe their own features, but the core is the same.

Also my account here is actually atproto 👋

It's interesting I have the exact opposite perspective with AI in regards to selfhosting.

The customizability is now endless for me, I can do anything, customize anything, problems that are typically 1-2 hours are fixed in <5 minutes.

Don't want to fiddle w/ a GUI? Shoot off a message and it's done.

Can't get over how much I love Babs Olusanmokun as M'Benga

Leetcode seems pretty useless right now. I think a take home, the results, and a conversation will lead to a really solid hiring signal though.

Youre probably looking more for something like the atmosphere (bluesky network) where you have one identity for every app.

But as the other guy said definitely in an ideal world everything communicates with everything cleanly.

100% I followed and tried to contribute to the NBA community quite a bit, but it was definitely tedious pulling highlight posts from reddit to post to to Lemmy constantly.

I ended up just botting it and have my own personal feed of highlights. It was also a bit odd because I would've loved to have botted it for the community but it's a bit weird botting for a community you aren't admin on.

I had tons of stability issues within the last year unfortunately, I would still recommend against it.

OP if you don't mind running this through a Hermes / OpenClaw harness this is probably the easiest way with pre built email connectors. Also if you don't mind spending a few bucks a month DeepSeek v4 will blow out anything you run locally for pennies (or gpt luna as of last wed.)

It can also set up its own custom connector if needed and run as needed via CRON.

The entire world of software is using AI. It's so strange to me we're allowing big corporations like Microsoft, Google, Reddit, etc devs take advantage of it for efficiency gains then turning around and criticizing and scoffing at solo dev projects who want to push the Internet to a better place.

By all means it's your right to say you don't want to use anything built with AI, but at this point you're better just leaving the Internet wholesale.

This may have been true last year but nowadays AI is far better and more thorough, and faster than 90% of devs when driven by someone knowledgeable.