Title. If this were Reddit, I could at least see it from the angle of a large audience. But the Fediverse is far too small for that. It’s like every other day there’s some 1 hour old account posting their slop-coded crap to c/SelfHosted.
Like, yes, brand new internet rando, I’ll totally install your vibe-coded slop that makes wild claims about being a super secure messenger or whatever grand claim you’re making. I actually might it it was posted by someone with a positive history here, but these are brand new accounts seemingly unconnected to anyone otherwise active on this platform.
Is it just a “flood the zone” strategy on their part? I’m not active anywhere else anymore, so maybe they’re flinging their slop all over and I only notice it here.
I don’t think the new account means anything at all. If you have a regular account that you use in the fediverse then you would dox yourself by posting a project you’ve been working on.
vibe-coding tools make the thrill of development accessible to more people - more people are making apps.
I think of it similarly to someone posting gen AI “art” in an art community. It’s a low effort post that I’m not going to engage with or be interested in.
piefed has a nice feature whereby new users have a starburst icon next to their username.