I should make a list of FOSS apps, projects, and services that have Fediverse accounts and don't code with AI, then strike them from the list with a big ELIMINATED notice if they do start drinking the slop kool-aid.
EDIT: Made one fedidevs.com/s/MTA2OA/
Honorary mentions
infosec.exchange/@catsalad/117341552145650963
Some honorary slop-free mentions (only missing due to accounts not set as discoverable)@appmanager
@librewolf
@littlefedi_official
@Nicolium
@polyphonychat
@polyproto
@readeck
@snowdrop
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in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •YOUR::L0CAL::DÆMON
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screwlisp
in reply to screwlisp • • •Raze [OCTADE]
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Aye.
freepascal.org/
Cat(ch) me if you can!
#Pascal #FreePascal
Free Pascal - Advanced open source Pascal compiler for Pascal and Object Pascal - Home Page
www.freepascal.orgCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •So far I know of...
@Codeberg
@elementary
@guix ⏱️
@microsoft
Wait...
vicente ⁂
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to vicente ⁂ • • •Noah, brought to you by Mutual of Omaha and PBS viewers like you
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •LisPi
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •@Codeberg @elementary @guix I have bad news about Guix.
lol that last one
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
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in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to LisPi • • •LisPi
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •tusharhero
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •LisPi
in reply to tusharhero • • •@tusharhero It seems, at most, for now, a reprieve.
"Oh but it'd also block models purely based on public domain content" yes, that's a feature. Even absent copyright and ethical problems (lol good luck), the functional problems remain unchanged.
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •⚠️ ELIMINATED@guix
Edit: UNELIMINATED... for now
📄 Mehdi.doc
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in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to manchicken • • •Wilfried Klaebe
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Should be disqualified for using Xitter...
@catsalad @manchicken
manchicken
in reply to Wilfried Klaebe • • •Wilfried Klaebe
in reply to manchicken • • •Still using Xitter in 2026 means being OK with supporting Musk.
@manchicken @catsalad
manchicken
in reply to Wilfried Klaebe • • •@wonka One of the primary reasons monopoly and oligarchy are so harmful is because once they get to that point it is impossible to fully avoid them.
Our 401ks probably make money for Musk, and I don’t think there’s much any of us can do to change that. As we establish our own positions, we should make sure we’re keeping in mind that nobody gets a say in most of this, and that Elon is now his own systemic problem needing a systemic solution.
manchicken
in reply to manchicken • • •@wonka I don’t think we can create positive social change by canceling people or projects based solely on the use of a social media platform.
It also may be a good idea to note that most of the handles on Twitter bridges are dormant or bots, especially with many Twitter users leaving Twitter not having the ability to delete the bridge user. You may be righteously canceling someone based on an abandoned bridge handle.
ziglang.org/news/0.11.0-postponed-again/
The Upcoming Release Postponed Two More Weeks and Lacks Async Functions ⚡ Zig Programming Language
ziglang.orgmanchicken
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Firefly Zero (game console)
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •add me, please. i'm a FOSS AI-free game console :)
Home page: fireflyzero.com/
Source code: github.com/firefly-zero
AI policy: docs.fireflyzero.com/internal/ai/
Firefly Zero
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inamruzui
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •vulpine labs won't touch llms
We know because we help run it
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to inamruzui • • •Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •@Kuniti_shino @vulpinelabs Well... It would be if I could add it. I'll put it in the honorable mentions section, at least!
Vulpine Labs Inc.
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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Vulpine Labs Inc. • • •Tournesol 🌻
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Tournesol 🌻 • • •Tournesol 🌻
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Mistress Remilia
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Aika: Aika
fossil.cyberia9.orgCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Oh nice! Tenacity is on Fedi @tenacity
codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#digital-audio-workstations
open-slopware
Codeberg.orgSackOfBones (any/all)
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •SackOfBones (any/all)
in reply to SackOfBones (any/all) • • •Sophie OP
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Acc: @haiku
Non-sloppyness: see top of haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta6/release-notes/
R1/beta6 – Release Notes
Haiku ProjectAndrew
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Andrew • • •Carlos Solís
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • •Cassandrich
in reply to Carlos Solís • • •LisPi likes this.
Cassandrich
in reply to Cassandrich • • •LOL why am I not surprised? Get fucked.
LisPi
in reply to Cassandrich • • •Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
Unknown parent • • •Freeeeeeeeeeeeee
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Alexia
in reply to Freeeeeeeeeeeeee • • •@freeplay@catsalad
No, our point isn't to shame projects that use AI, and rather to highlight those which don't.
See starlightnet.work/posts/the-no-ai-list.html which goes over why I started the list and what the approach/philosophy behind it is
the-no-ai-list.html
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Alexia
in reply to Alexia • • •@freeplay@catsalad
Historically, the projects that got removed from the list fell into one of two categories
- Projects which's ban depended purely on licensing or was a temporary measure (maybe QEMU or OpenJDK in the future)
- Projects which had a policy discussion wherein people which use AI pushed for a more lenient policy (think bevy)
other cases are rare, moreso exceptions than the norm
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Alexia • • •viq
in reply to Alexia • • •@freeplay @catsalad
borgmatic/AGENTS.md at main
projects.torsion.orgviq
in reply to viq • • •@freeplay @catsalad
Alexia
in reply to viq • • •@viq@freeplay@catsalad
RE: borgmatic
don't think so! this still clearly says
Please do not use AI agents to modify this codebase.Weirdly enough it then...still lists out interesting parts of the codebase?? but I think I can write that off as an oddity more than anything
RE: readeck
sure why not :)
if ya can show me where their policy is ofc
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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Alexia • • •viq
in reply to Alexia • • •@freeplay @catsalad
Outfrost
in reply to Alexia • • •i'm wondering how you see this: is it meaningful that borgmatic is ai-free, when it's basically a wrapper for borg backup which is very tainted?
@freeplay @catsalad @viq
viq
in reply to Outfrost • • •@alexia @freeplay @catsalad
Outfrost
in reply to viq • • •Don't strawman, and don't act contrarian.
There's a huge difference between a data backup tool whose entire purpose is to call another backup tool (which implements the core functionality and determines data integrity) more conveniently/automatically, and a program being constructed using a compiler/interpreter and standard library.
Also, i asked @alexia for her perspective, you don't need to answer for her.
Alexia
in reply to Outfrost • • •@outfrost@freeplay@catsalad
that is meaningful yes; we don't consider dependencies or upstreams unless something is a soft-fork for practicality reasons
it's not about whether or not the stack is "pure", it's about presenting values
Freeeeeeeeeeeeee
in reply to Alexia • • •ARGVMI~1.PIF
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •It doesn't have any “eliminated” notices, but… codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index
See also this list of projects that *do* contain AI-generated code: codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware
slopfree-software-index
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in reply to ARGVMI~1.PIF • •Wilfried Klaebe likes this.
GIMP
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in reply to GIMP • • •Kien
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Kien • • •GunChleoc
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Taggart
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Just found this: Fork of KPXC without LLM commits: codeberg.org/ChiPass/ChiPass
Also, this is the opposite of what you asked for, but many entries have alternatives.
codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware
open-slopware
Codeberg.orgCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Taggart • • •@mttaggart Yes, and I really appreciate all the work @whitequark put into this!
There is no dedicated ChiPass fediverse account, but it would gladly be on my list if it was.
Taggart
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
Unknown parent • • •diana 🏳️⚧️🦋🌱
Unknown parent • • •@lcamtuf
I remember that very morning in September when AOL started flooding the UseNet Newsgroups with ...umm... slop. The community never recovered.
We can do this. We must do this. The last stand against billionaires and their slop.
Superball ☀️
Unknown parent • • •Netzblockierer
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •OS/1337had an account but that got made useless by some power-trippin' mod…Sel
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Vulture
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in reply to Vulture • • •0x0
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •@roko_basilisk
Jeroen Baert
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Bonkers
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •well, I looked into Forgejo as a potential base for my project, but there are over 2k open issues in their repo, and some of them are over two years old. Honestly, the only way for them to keep up would be employing a clanker.
My project would require new features in it, but there's no chance they would be implemented within Forgejo, and myself I'm bad at golang.
I'll probably implement it from scratch, using Claude as a coder, as I don't have a budget to hire a full time developer (it's not even a commercial project).
0x0
in reply to Bonkers • • •@bonkers
> I'll probably implement it from scratch, using Claude as a coder,
Wrong thread much?
@catsalad
Bonkers
in reply to 0x0 • • •happyborg
in reply to Bonkers • • •Correction, haters of tech fascism and it's resultant silent genocide. Time to open your mind fella.
@0x0 @catsalad
hipgnose
in reply to Bonkers • • •@bonkers this doesn't make any sense, in any way.
It's like seen how many open issues Chromium have and stop using the browser based on it.
(You should stop for other reasons, but it's not the case)
Bonkers
in reply to hipgnose • • •hipgnose
in reply to Bonkers • • •Elton Cora (Honorary)
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •I absolutely love that you did this, thank you so much.
As is the nature of social dynamics, the projects who breach trust are the ones that get the most attention. And it is right that they get it, but a steady stream of disappointment is exhausting.
Seeing this all combined in one place tickled a circuit in my brain that hasn’t been active since the creative and the weird and the optimistic started embracing the web in the late nineties.
Thank you!
kjvee
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •AerynOS ? @/AerynOS@hachyderm.io
@/novelwriter@fosstodon.org
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to kjvee • • •Duke of Germany 💫
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Suggestion for the list: @OBSProject
(They have an anti-AI coding policy, see mastodon.gamedev.place/@duke_of_germany/117316316603616893 )
@catsalad
Duke of Germany 💫 (@duke_of_germany@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Duke of Germany 💫 (Gamedev Mastodon)Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Duke of Germany 💫 • • •Carlos (명준)
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •I would differentiate between using AI vs using what these losers call “Agentic AI” which is nothing more than neglecting your own agency.
I use multiline autocomplete, a chat tab as a search on steroids and targeted medium-sized function/block generation. All powered by local models.
And I don’t think I’m using “AI” in a way that wasn’t possible 10 years ago already. And this didn’t hurt software development nor the planet nor my cognitive skills.
A doubt: I’m developing a Grammarly alternative that uses rules + local LLMs. But with the aforementioned workflow, do I qualify for the list?
0x0
in reply to Carlos (명준) • • •You're skipping the legal and environmental aspects of using LLMs.
@catsalad
Carlos (명준)
in reply to 0x0 • • •locally? And trained predictively only on my own codebases?
I don’t this so
happyborg
in reply to Carlos (명준) • • •@iscarlosmolero yeh, sorry even local, open weights etc are a problem.
Where do they come from, does knowing you use #localAI help normalise it, encourage other uses (with harmful effects).
I won't argue because even if you are the one person who's #LLM use genuinely isn't doing direct harm, do you want to risk secondary harm of helping tech fascism and the inevitable genocide that will flow from it? Have you read how it is inherently fascist tech?
Food for you to chew on.
@0x0 @catsalad
Carlos (명준)
in reply to happyborg • • •I don’t think you’re understanding me.
I trained my own 1-3b models to do autocomplete and some for web browsing and retrieval.
In any case, I’m open to discuss the possible dangers even of this approach.
happyborg
in reply to Carlos (명준) • • •@iscarlosmolero I don't have time to get into the detail but I'm not sure it matters...
And maybe, as I said, you are unique IDK, but even saying "I use local LLM models (I trained)" can normalise and encourage other -harmful- LLM use because few will understand any difference with what you do.
@0x0 @catsalad
Carlos (명준)
in reply to happyborg • • •I got you perfectly, the LLM acronym and the normalization of its use is encouraging people to use them irresponsibly.
But this only happens when the reader is tech-illiterate (by no means as an insult). Amongst engineers, the difference between these approaches should be more than clear.
AFAIK, 10 years ago we were using so-called AI already on our IDEs. So called because it’s just predictive text. As for the chat tab I use, for me is like having a convenient search engine.
But again, I totally get you and I understand the concern.
happyborg
in reply to Carlos (명준) • • •@iscarlosmolero
> But this only happens when the reader is tech-illiterate (by no means as an insult). Amongst engineers, the difference between these approaches should be more than clear.
That's a conjecture not fact. If it were true I do not think many engineers would be using this stuff in any of its forms.
Anyway, I've already said I do not wish to debate this. By all means do you, but don't seek my approval.
@0x0 @catsalad
Carlos (명준)
in reply to happyborg • • •loading… HAC (he/him)
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •#fonass
vrtrahan
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Chimera linux? They are highly critical regarding high-quality code to the point of using a free-bsd userland and designing their custom ecosystem around dinit, so I wouldn't be surprised if they are anti-AI-slop.
They even created a rather high-performace build and packaging system...
Claudius Link
Unknown parent • • •Followed by Sloptober
Scott Murray
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Great list?
Maybe to add to the list: @littlefedi_official
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in reply to rdnt:~$ _ • • •Kumar McMillan
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Poxviridæ
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •I'll consider switching to it next time I break my Debian
Krzysztof Sakrejda 🏳️⚧️ 🏴☠
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •there's mastodon.tedomum.net/@deuxfleurs
They're the ones who made garage among other things
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
Unknown parent • • •@rotsaruckz63 Tis a shame about Pixelfed 🫤
mastodon.gamedev.place/@antimundo/117338493301655253
infosec.exchange/@thepwnicorn/117340986598165441
Antimundo
2026-09-26 17:21:58
Dan (He/Him)
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Firefly III
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Firefly III • • •Yorik van Havre
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Firefly III
in reply to Yorik van Havre • • •Tris
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •tmw 🌈
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •do i see KDE on the list? i am not sure about that right now...
(kinda relatedly but not the same, this site exists and has fedi links for many people as opposed to projects, which is cool, but it's hard to tell what project(s) they're associated with
handcraftedcode.org/ )
We write code by hand: We use Natural Intelligence to build software.
handcraftedcode.orgNikhil 🐧
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •paculino
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Right now, it's looking like curl and sql adjacent things will be the hardest to address. There are alternatives though, and I'm currently using preslop versions.
open-slopware
Codeberg.orgPrincipia
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) reshared this.
lertsenem
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Maybe you could put the ones eliminated too, maybe with something like a red cross? Because it's difficult to know if an app isn't there because it uses genAI, or only because you missed it.
Which leads to my question: does @gotosocial uses genAI? I don't think so, but you never know these days.
VANTABlack
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •SomeVeganCheeseIsOk
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Carlos Solís
Unknown parent • •Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
Unknown parent • • •Jay Grant 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Jay Grant 🏳️⚧️ • • •Jay Grant 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Veronica Olsen
Unknown parent • • •@alexia @freeplay
We have an internal AI policy in our project, but I just posted a public one for clarification.
Personally, I'm very critical of the AI industry, so I try to set a policy that is actually enforceable in practice. But I'm immersed in this technology at work whether I want to or not, and for all its problems it is helpful for *some* things.
Aleksandr Koltsoff
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Bernard Quatermass
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •via my other head,
ehlo.exim.org/@bernardq/116851178355484115
Bernard Quatermass (@bernardq@ehlo.exim.org)
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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Bernard Quatermass • • •Outfrost
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Zughy
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •luanti/doc/developing/ai_policy.md at master · luanti-org/luanti
GitHubMicdan
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •KDE (433.world/@Yuvalne/117324432250512573) and Tuta (github.com/tutao/tutanota/pull/10112#pullrequestreview-3593084498) are still on the list?
Hmm... Is it outdated?
And yes, I know that in the Tuta link Copilot can be invoked by anyone; but the devs didn't scold the PR author.
Fix event time rendering by andrehgdias · Pull Request #10112 · tutao/tutanota
GitHubVANTABlack
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •Glad I checked this out. So many cool projects.
2 corrections though.
I know someone mentioned this, but I am going to make sure it is seen postmarketOS is now Nura with a new account fosstodon.org/@nura@treehouse.systems
Chimera Linux has a new account at floss.social/@chimera@gts.chimera-linux.org
Those are the ones I saw, but more could need updates.
Is there a way to follow what gets added to the list and what gets eliminated other than following you? (I am following you)
Fosstodon
fosstodon.orgքʏʀǟȶɛɮɛǟʀɖ
in reply to Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) • • •