@Daojoan I've been wondering how much of that would go away. if before submitting a change, you had to do a quick phone or video call with a existing maintainer.

I don't think many projects have so many aspiring contributors that this would be a major time burden...

@Daojoan @nycki I like it. Keeps the control in there hands of humans.

Sadly, I expect Microsoft would much prefer a “solution” which is “just throw an LLM at it” because this keeps power in their hands.

But honestly, this feels like the closest thing to a “real” solution I’ve seen so far.

@Daojoan When you say ‘The "open" in open source was always about access to code, not the abolition of all quality filters on human participation.’ You highlight humans making the same stupid error LLMs do. They take a word like “open” that has a variety of meanings based on context, remove all context, assign a meaning, and try to stick it back into a context it doesn’t fit.

Like an LLM discussing “diving” can easily careen between skydiving, scuba diving, and swimming diving. Snorkel? Parachute? Swimming cap?

To me, it feels like a variation on context collapse. Using the wrong sense of a word (“open”) because it has been stripped of its context (the open source tradition).

@Daojoan But Florentine weavers would also resort to burning down the workshops of outsider weavers… do we want people in the web of trust to burn down AI data cent…. never mind, proceed!

@Daojoan Hello friend Greetings 🌺
‎How are you doing today hope you’re feeling well and your family? You are having a direct text from Elon.

@Daojoan it's hard for people to reject authoritarianism and accept freedom. I get it.

https://www.ctrlaltrevolt.net/posts/the-wake-up-call.html

@Daojoan fabulous article. Thanks.

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#Couchsurfing used to have a vouch system which worked a bit like this (once you'd been vouched for x times you could vouch for other people)

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#Couchsurfing used to have a vouch system which worked a bit like this (once you'd been vouched for x times you could vouch for other people)

@Daojoan Interesting

This is something that has been bugging me for months. The noise to signal ratio in open source repos has gotten insane. You used to be able to trust that if something had stars and contributors it was legit. Now half of it is AI slop with a polished README and zero real usage. We need better curation, not more code

@Daojoan not a bad idea. But:

> You could imagine this layered onto GitHub

Except GitHub is owned by Microsoft who bet all their money and their entire business on the slop economy. Wo you'd never* get them to do something like that, that reduces the incentives to mass slopping.

*) "Never", until they jump on the next hype train going in a new exhausting direction.

oi! @forgejo a feature request: circles.

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@Codeberg

@Daojoan I love it when the Tech-Community discovers historical rabbit holes. 1 in 9 times something exciting happens 🫶

@Daojoan (not so) shamelessly quoting myself: https://mastodon.social/@jzilske/114570397526134017

@Daojoan tbh this feels like having a lot of similarity to the usual spam issue with huge media:
the moderators are nowhere around and don't care much about you because they hold no real stake to lose

@Daojoan Did you recently update your website? I feel like it looks different. Good but different than the last time I was here.