For the newest piefed release, I worked on a new feature, that allows community admins to choose a "community theme", which overrides the users theme while they are browsing the specific community. This works for every user on piefed, that has the newest version, it unfortunately won't show up on lemmy, because they have a completely different theming system.

There are already some cool themes to choose from (the themes, that the users could pick from before), but the idea with this, is that you can create your own themes for your community and propose it to our Codeberg repository. There are so many cool ways, to make your community stand out, I am imagining maybe a swirling background for a balatro community, a theme that makes posts looked like ripped out pages and a custom comic-book hand as a cursor for !nonpolitical_comics@piefed.social or other comic communities, maybe the hercules, or irix theme for retro communities.

I am sure you have many ideas, that are even cooler and I really hope that piefed get's even more wild and interresting with this update!

(PS: I know that the screenshot is of a lemmy community and that this wouldn't work, it's just meant as an example)

As I understand, there are currently no real guidelines for this, even though AI is currently a big topic in FOSS.
In my opinion, AI can be quite dangerous for free software and that's why we really need to discuss how we can address this issue. Here are some of the reasons for that:

• Poor quality, insecure code: AI still produces hard to maintain code, that is often severely insecure. Even if you check every line of code carefully, there is a good chance you overlook something, because you won't fully understand the code, you haven't written yourself
• Licensing issues: AI often reproduces code from it's training material, which could be incompatible with this codes license
• Legal trouble: The legality of the copyright about AI is not yet really settled, so it could be a big legal risk to have AI-code in your codebase
• Ethics: AI systematically exploits the work of all open source contributors for the profit of big companies. We as part of the free software movement should reject this more openly

My idea for this policy was, that we should definetely demand for AI generated code to be marked as such (you have to disclose in your commits, if you have used AI for that). I think we should also ban entirely AI-generated PRs aswell, because they produce more work for the maintainers than they actually help with anything. Were I am not quite sure yet, is how we handle the case when someone used AI just as autocomplete, but wrote most of the code themselves? You should probably also have to disclose that, do you think we should ban something like that?

Looking forward to hear what you think about this!

This thought came to me in the shower today. Open source checks most of the boxes. It is a collaborative, worker owned (develloper-owned) project, that tries to flatten hierarchy. Especially if you look at something like Debian ), which really tries to have a bottom-up structure.
Of course, there are exceptions, considering there are a lot of corporate open-source projects, that are not democratically maintained and clearly only serve the interest of the company, who created it (like chromium for example).
So I am mainly talking about community-oriented FOSS projects here.
And if you were to agree with my statement, would you say that developing FOSS software is advancing the goals of the anarchist / communist project, because it is laying the groundwork infrastructure needed for a new kind of economy and society?
Thought this could be an interesting discussion!