r/opensource Bans AI Projects, Requires One Year of Existence and Real Community
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-10-27
The r/opensource subreddit has banned AI-related project posts, now requiring projects to be at least a year old with a genuine community — a notable pushback by open source communities against AI-generated low-quality repos.
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