r/opensource Bans AI Projects and Solo Maintainers, and Users Say That Rules Out Linux
R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs
The r/opensource moderators now require every advertised project to be at least a year old, actively maintained, and backed by three or more contributors, and they bar anything built with or for AI. Accounts must also be a year old with real Reddit history. Commenters quickly pointed out that the Linux kernel, which now accepts AI-assisted contributions, would fail these tests, and that a nine-year solo-maintained project with 300+ GitHub stars is suddenly unwelcome.
There's no "objective" way to implement this policy. The rule is written so that from a moderation perspective, we're afforded discretion to remove as much "slop" as necessary.