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I made an AI-free version of my directory with open-source alternatives (noai.openaltfinder.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by OpenAltFinder@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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I've been running OpenAltFinder for almost 16 months now, and received quite a bit of positive feedback. The directory has also grown substantially. Over the last few months I've been receiving more and more submissions that were AI-assisted/vibe-coded.

Personally I'm a bit skeptical (both quality wise, and longevity wise), but I also want to give everyone a chance to showcase what they've build. I had already added an "AI-assisted" label, but right now the majority of submissions include that label.

To counter this, I decided to build an AI-free version of it over at: https://noai.openaltfinder.com/, inspired by duckduckgo.

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[-] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

A running trend with these "open alternatives" sites is that they almost universally seem to have at least one proprietary "honorable mention" (either source available or straight up binary blobs). I haven't been able to find one on this site, so that's a win right there.

[-] OpenAltFinder@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

There are a couple of source available projects (https://openaltfinder.com/licenses/source-available), but because of the custom ranking, they'll always be ranked lower anyway.

[-] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

D'oh, should have looked under licenses. That's usually the first place I look lol. Thanks for being forthright about this.

I see some other proprietary source available licenses like BSL and FSL there too.

[-] OpenAltFinder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, partially because I'm not entirely sure yet on what to do with those projects. Right now all those licenses get a zero score, so they'll always be listed lower. But perhaps the move is to just not accept those licenses in the first place.

Right now it's less than 10 projects, out of the nearly 500.

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