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Nervous about making posts on my project (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 hours ago by JustDorky@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Since fable 5 went down just some time ago(although this is no longer the case), a lot of fable or Mythos related content including models and datasets were completely killed from HF, it seemed like such a blow to the local development community to lose such important files, this is what inspired me to work on my project, it's a p2p decentralized distribution network (aka a torrent site) that pulls files from HF and verifies them through sha256, I've been making slow and steady progress but so far I haven't made a single public post about it. I'm genuinely scared of a number of things happening, that the project won't gain traction, ridicule from more experienced developers, I'm also worried about security vulnerabilities which I'm sure I haven't fully patched yet...

How do I get over this fear of talking about my project? How do I gain stars on GitHub, and community engagement? After all, a decentralized distribution network is nothing without its peers...

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[-] halm@leminal.space 2 points 1 hour ago

>so far I haven't made a single public post about it

Well, now you made one. Congratulations.

Maybe you need to look at the reasons you feel unsure about promoting the project. You seem very eager to get stars on Github (and let's not get into the GH situation, nor "AI", nor the fact that your open source project relies heavy on proprietary models).

I'd suggest you ignore the scoring system for the moment, and just write from your original enthusiasm about the project. Leave marketing to corporations that can afford marketers.

Stars and upvotes and likes are addictive metrics, and can have a deleterious effect when they don't show. And yes, stars decide how high you rank on Github (see parenthesis above), but that's for a later stage. It begins with writing the first post — and for that, again, congratulations 🙂

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Sorry but you're screwed. Lemmy is filled with an Anti-AI army of users ready to downvote every post you'll make.

2 options: tough it up, or gang up with other AI devs and create an AI friendly community for FOSS / selfhosted apps.

Personally, I don't care if it was AI assisted. I only care if it's good or not. And by "good" I mean a lot of things. Including but not limited to:

  • Maintenance history
  • Contributors
  • Performance
  • Code quality / readability
  • Documentation
  • Dependancies
  • Security
  • Privacy
  • UX/UI
  • and more
[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

I mean I support this in terms of decentralization. I think lemmy wont be as receptive as they're allergic to AI.

[-] helix@feddit.org 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

There's a difference between being allergic to AI and being allergic to LLMs shoved everywhere they don't belong. There's good use cases for AI and LLMs in particular, but I have rarely seen it being used well. Most people who unconditionally support AI usage are incompetent idiots who couldn't do anything without AI.

[-] halm@leminal.space 3 points 1 hour ago

Fully agree with the last bit. And let's be honest when we admit that there are "good use cases for AI and LLMs". None of us here are doing protein folding or crunching other ginormous datasets for science.

Using Claude to write code you don't have the chops to quality check... doesn't really qualify. That's just choosing convenience over safety. "Move fast and break things" as a service.

[-] helix@feddit.org 1 points 32 minutes ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago)

Using Claude to write code you don’t have the chops to quality check… doesn’t really qualify.

What if I do have the chops to quality check and actually do treat Claude like a junior coder?

I often use it for annoying tasks like "transform this data structure into the one which is specified in the new major version of the upstream API" and write a test before.

It basically saves me typing things and I would need to test my own code anyway. That's one of the good use cases: glorified autocomplete 😅

[-] helix@feddit.org 5 points 7 hours ago

Sorry, I don't speak AI zealot speak, what is HF (huggingface.co?) and why do you need to host proprietary models there?

[-] JustDorky@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

No proprietary models are hosted, you can only access models hosted by the community or ones with open source weights,

To answer your question (I'm assuming you are talking about me hosting it, not HF), I do actually pull LLMs from HF, but also a lot of other files, including audio models, datasets, and AI adjacent systems such as retrieval systems, etc.

I think my project has primary use cases beyond LLMs.

[-] helix@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

No proprietary models are hosted, you can only access models hosted by the community or ones with open source weights,

why mention Fable and Mythos then, which are proprietary models? Community hosted models can also be proprietary. Proprietary in contrast to Open Source just means owned and operated by a corporate entity, which can be part of a community as long as the license is not Free.

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