The human purists will lose. They're using a feather quill in the age of the typewriter.

Maybe they just want reddit to lose

no way, this is the best thing ever. all the reddit freaks have been bogging every essential bit of infrastructure from linux on down with weird absurd demands forever. if they all just leave out of some sort of insane luddite principle of gay space luxury communism free-range fair-trade handcrafted...

"...and if you don't speak English, fuck off too." LOL

No, just that mod(s) apparently from reading the comments in that thread.

So… you can’t talk about Linux on /r/opensource.

I hate what the Reddit hive mind has become.

A bit of perspective on who actually wrote that rule: the vast majority of Reddit's subreddit moderators are unpaid volunteers.

'if you dont speak english' nothing like cutting off ~80% of the world population

There are other subreddits

Thinking your corporate social media influence matters is the the true peak cringe of the internet

Reddit is low-mid tyranny.

Their 10 subscribers must be so upset

New subreddit in response lol: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOpenSource/s/Xs3hjuVulv

Reddit…

An open source community closing its doors to AI-driven projects seems to contradict its core ethos. It feels like an artificial purity test for authorship, where the "open" in open source is defined by what it excludes, not what it embraces.

Banning slop is reasonable. Allowing it would be the actual threat

i mean wanting to restrict AI is kinda fair, every corner of the internet is being filled up with slop, but they could've been less agressive about it. also banning all people who don't speak english is crazy

The latest “HFSP” folks

This is the dumbest decision ever if they actually wanted open source software. Not like it will make a damn bit of difference. But still.

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