Hi, I'm a lemmy.ml admin. The one mod of this community has been inactive for years so i'm filling in here.

I just removed a bunch of posts linking to brand-new (ranging from days-to-months-old) Debian derivatives.

Expanding on what I wrote in a PM to the person who posted these:

i am quite certain that most of these distros are not things which should be recommended to anyone. the barrier to entry with LLMs has gotten so low, anyone can make a garbage distro which they'll soon abandon, and worse anyone can also make malware with a shiny website and write posts on a bunch of blogs to entice people to try it.

getting even a few users to try it could be quite lucrative: when someone boots a malicious iso it can pillage their disk.

so, I propose that, going forward people should not post links to new Debian derivatives here if they are not providing at least either a personal or 3rd-party endorsement of the credibility of the project.

if anyone (with a substantial good-judgment-indicating posting or commenting history) wants to be made a mod of this community, let me know.