Pixelfed bans AI generated contributions.
We heard you! We are not accepting any AI or agentic code contributions, and will keep building Pixelfed by hand.
Thank you for your feedback!
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed#ai-generated-contributions
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@pixelfed After this wonderful decision, you just need to leave GitHub to reach Nirvana 🤗
@pixelfed Great decision and hope @FirefoxOfficial sees and follows the announcement. 🤗
@pixelfed these are the posts where you read the comments and block half the people 
(the post is good, no hate here)
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Don't know if it's wise to leave a comment like this - but:
AI or no AI can be a question that leads to great discussion.
What I don't get is why we can't argue like human beings. I chose Mastodon for kindness and as a positive alternative to other social media. Not to read the same old comments throwing insults at each other.
Calm down, tone it down, hug each other, folks. And then we can argue. No?
Now waiting for the shitstorm for this comment.
cue the sloppers in 3 ... 2... 1...
@pixelfed I wonder, does this apply to security vulnerabilities as well, what happens if someone uses an LLM and finds a genuine vulnerability, is it just gonna get ignored because it comes from an LLM, the models are actually good at this...
@rebootl If they report a legit vulnerability, we can work on our own fix (and code) and wouldn't be an issue.
@pixelfed Yes! Let's not use power tools to build a house! Because why would we!
@pixelfed Dank maar volgens mij zijn er nog veel bugs. Gelukkig hou ik wat echt belangrijk is en er toe doet in eigen bewaring.
@pixelfed thanks, I was this 🤏 close to consider phasing out a Pixelfed instance if it the software became slopware.
@pixelfed Any Business that rejects Ai Im automatically a fan of !
A clear contribution policy saves maintainers from reviewing work they cannot safely merge. It also tells newcomers exactly where human judgment still matters.
@pixelfed even though there is a stronger consensus that using AI will degrade the project quality in the long term, I personally feel like we have to find middle ground. Completely abandoning AI will slow down progress. I see so many pain points in using the #pixelfed app itself. I feel, goal should be to make OSS genuine alternative to private software and taking AI's help, will help us achieve it. But doing a complete vibe coding is a no no. Tools like auto completion are really helpful tools
@abhiyantrik @pixelfed Abandoning AI will not slow down progress, it will keep it at it's current rate. Which is perfectly fine IMHO
@abhiyantrik @atte We are preparing a massive update for our Android and iOS apps that have been in development for months!
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