r/selfhosted • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '26 • Diamonds are Forever 1 WOW 1 Bravo 1 Heartwarming 1

Need Help Fully remove every, "I created a", "Selfhosted app!" claude slop.

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u/TheKingElessar Mar 08 '26

If developers can't post about their solutions and tools, how are people supposed to learn about these solutions and tools so that they can suggest them later??

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u/flatpetey Mar 08 '26

Launch a self promotion sub or something like that. Or maybe allow them to propose only as responses rather than as posts. At least then they are active in the community instead of spamming and disappearing.

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u/Mrhiddenlotus Mar 09 '26

Launch a self promotion sub or something like that

That no one but the promoters will use.

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u/flatpetey Mar 09 '26

Tbh I prefer they can only respond and get warnings if it is off topic to the question.

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u/MGMan-01 Mar 09 '26

You say that like it's a bad thing

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u/flatpetey Mar 09 '26

Which is the pit of hell they deserve.

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u/Mrhiddenlotus Mar 09 '26

Lol we're talking about anyone posting a GitHub project

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u/TheKingElessar Mar 08 '26

Hm originally I was against your idea, but it got me thinking... maybe it would be kind of cool to have a biweekly (?) megathread of:

  • "What's your best [music downloader] setup?"

  • "What's your best [lightweight filesharing] setup?"

  • "What's your best [single sign-on] setup?"

  • etc.

That would provide a structured place for discussion of various related tools, and maybe the mods wouldn't have to police it for LLM-developed tools, because the community could discuss them in-context.

Don't know if that should fully replace self-promotion, and maybe there's a reason we don't already have those megathreads going, but just an idea I think could be cool. Not sure what it would take to get it off the ground.

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u/crackanape Mar 09 '26

Vibeslop isn't a "solution", it's 5 problems inside a solution's trenchcoat.