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 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
@pixelfed that's great news! even in a time where vibe coding or contributions related to it are becoming more and more common even though i don't think vibe coding should be like that or should even be a thing at most but regardless that's still great news
@pixelfed well that’s dumb. Since when do users dictate anything?
@pixelfed You will thank your earlier self when you have to go back and edit code in the future.
@pixelfed a step towards the right direction
@pixelfed
Great. Now unban my @LargeGiraffe account.
@pixelfed I am a bit confused by the wording here.
"We are not accepting any AI or agentic code contributions" is very different to "[...]contributions that are substantially generated by generative AI or large language models will not be accepted"
Is the intention that these two statements have the same interpretation?
This foto wasn't created with AI, cause I made 2010 in Berlin and after it was taken, I never took an AI-creator or something like this. It's a wrong decision and false.
@poorpriest007 What do you mean? We are talking about the Pixelfed codebase
I talk about a foto from 2010 and it is the original foto without any other influnce since that time. 2010. Please control my statement. Thanx a lot.
@poorpriest007 We mean we are banning AI code contributions to the software of Pixelfed, this has nothing to do with content on the platform!
@pixelfed and the agent preparations? Can you shed some light?
A clear contribution policy saves maintainers from reviewing work they cannot safely merge. It also tells newcomers exactly where human judgment still matters.