AI-generated contributions are not accepted.
Pull requests, patches, documentation, translations, issues, or other contributions that are substantially generated by generative AI or large language models will not be accepted.
Contributors are expected to understand, author, and take responsibility for the work they submit. Tools such as linters, formatters, autocomplete, spellcheckers, and other non-generative development tools are unaffected by this policy.
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed#ai-generated-contributions
https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server#ai-generated-contributions
We heard you! We are not accepting any AI or agentic code contributions, and will keep building Pixelfed by hand.
I still think it’s odd to ban AI outright, it’s incredibly democratizing for smaller platforms and enables them to keep up with without getting bogged down in the drudgery of bug fixes / testing.
Allowing the use of something that is ruining the internet, mental health, the environment, art, politics etc. may demoralize some developers and get a lot of people to dislike and not use your project, something that is way more important for a social media than the speed LLMs allegedly provide
Humans?
Open source projects that allow those humans to contribute can also demoralize some developers and get a lot of people to dislike and not use the project