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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 24/08/2026

Additionally, we wanted to take this time to remind y'all that we're also on fedi at @the@starlightnet.work, and we're arguably a lot more active there :) You can still feel free to follow and interact here, but sorry if turnover times are a bit long!

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 24/08/2026

Probably owe y'all an update Botanica is a small, fedora-based operating system aimed at making it easier to set up a Matrix server at home. It's still WIP and many questions are unanswered, but it boots and sorta runs already :)

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 17/07/2026

That's it, pretty much. If you want more context you can find that here: shrimp.starlightnet.work/notes/aors7b...

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 17/07/2026

We now accept XMR for donations. monero:46XwbDtnDwzDWNVTWQvXkj237AoZCjUUY2EyYhyQgmAuiroDBP3oSc5aYG4K6JW7GHKLxFzjhPKbYgZukBS7AAweDNroDre

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 15/07/2026

yeah, typst has such a policy. I'm guessing they just don't wanna deal with other people fucking it up, but are fine with themselves fucking it up. /shrug

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 13/07/2026

If you do have an issue with one of the entries we encourage you to report it! This can be done in a new issue. Be sure to login with Codeberg first :) (Other providers will come forgejo OIDC issues are fixed)

forge.starlightnet.work

With it the Golden Country, or he.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 13/07/2026

Regardless, to answer your question, they're anti-ai, that is to say they reject its use. This is explained by the subtitle of the list itself: > A list of projects that pledged not to use AI or are disrupting it.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 13/07/2026

Sometimes we have to remove a project again, because it turns out that policy is only for public-facing contributions (i.e it's used internally by the developers still), but other than that we like to believe we've done a good job at keeping it consistent.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 13/07/2026

our exact criteria is outlined here fwiw, it boils down to only covering projects which are known to explicitly reject the use of AI, i.e by poisoning files with prompt injection or an explicit policy statement somewhere.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 13/07/2026

> even though Ive never noticed performance issues. that is probably not the best indicator for whether or not something is 'tainted'. The reason why we chose to make an opposite list to open-slopware is because it's much easier to tell apart a project that rejects AI from one that doesn't.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 02/07/2026

and that's all for the moment! this should catch you up with what we're doing. Be sure to check out @the@starlightnet.work on Fedi as we're more active over there, and follow our blog using Atom/RSS!

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 02/07/2026

And finally, we've started slowly branching out our IRC network to also encompass XMPP using a bridge. So, if you wanna talk then look no further! makko@conference.starlightnet.work mynah@conference.starlightnet.work no-ai@conference.starlightnet.work We'll be adding more to this list :)

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 02/07/2026

A good friend of ours has joined the network, and with it Mynah is a new project under our banner. It's a new, Work-In-Progress desktop XMPP client that aims to be customizable, user-friendly and well-supported across Linux, macOS and Windows.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 02/07/2026

The No-AI List saw several updates that improved some things and added *tons* of new projects (over 70 new projects!...if I didn't miscount lol)

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 02/07/2026

Also about Forgejo, our registrations are now a *lot* more lenient. No longer do registrations need to be manually approved, you can just hit "Sign in with Codeberg" and be right on your way contributing to our projects!

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 02/07/2026

We got all the custom emojis for our Forgejo instance back! There was a big performance regression that made it quite annoying to have this many emojis loaded, but now it's been fixed so we've been able to continue on :)about Makko, the No-AI List or Mynah,

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 02/07/2026

We released a beta of version 3.0 of Makko, our in-house static site generator built for blogs and personal sites And, also, released a second beta as well! Check out the changelogs here and grab a copy while you're at it :) forge.starlightnet.work/Team/Makko/r...

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 02/07/2026

1. We have an IRC Network live! As hinted by our last post(s), we set up an IRC network using ergo ircd and it's been working great! Be sure to check out our blogpost about it for more info: starlightnet.work/posts/irc.html also with a webclient!

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 02/07/2026

Hiya everyone! We've kept the ATmosphere in the dark for some time about what we've been doing, so I wanted to take some time to catch y'all up on what's been happening :)

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 28/03/2026

Totally not teasing anything. Of course not ;)

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 28/03/2026

Hmm... IRCv3 looks interesting... ;)

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 23/03/2026

We will try and cross-reference your new account with one on Codeberg, if we can find it, if not we'll reach out to you. happy contributing :) *: your existing Codeberg email will be used, but we won't verify it. We will use it only to reach out to you if something went wrong or we need more info.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 23/03/2026

# We are opening Forgejo registrations! registrations to forge.starlightnet.work are now open under two conditions: - You must use Codeberg to register. - Your registration will be manually approved. No E-Mail required.*

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 09/03/2026

already ahead of ya ;) forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/p...

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 08/03/2026

This is the first release of this list, it will be updated monthly (as per the FAQ on the linked site) We hope it can be a useful resource for people.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 08/03/2026

# No AI, cuz we don't do that around here. hiya! You might've seen alexia talking about this a bit already, but we're publishing a list of tech that actively rejects or disallows AI contributions noai.starlightnet.work

A screenshot of the No-AI list.

"A list of projects that pledged not to use AI or are disrupting it."

Then follows a list of projects, divided into categories. on the screenshot, "Web/Internet (tools, browser)" and "instant messaging" are visible. The rest is cut off.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 05/03/2026

But every single day, we learn something new that makes it *increasingly* difficult to justify staying here in any capacity.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 05/03/2026

It hasn't been long since we set up a PDS with the expressed purpose of still allowing people that prefer this platform to follow our happenings.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 05/03/2026

It's becoming increasingly difficult to justify being on this platform for us all.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 01/03/2026

We've got some new members! They ain't on bluesky, so check out the post we just made here: shrimp.starlightnet.work/notes/ajaz9d...

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 28/02/2026

This is your reminder that we're also on fedi at @the@starlightnet.work :)

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 28/02/2026

We'll be updating this document according to feedback, and in fact, have already done so! We do not want this to be predatory, but we *also* do not want our contributions to be filled with slop once we adopt a new contributor strategy.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 28/02/2026

Mind you, this is not a Contributor *License* Agreement, because we do not take copyright or ownership of any code contributed. It does however lay out policies, like how your code must be submitted under the same license, and how no LLMs may be used during the production of any code.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 28/02/2026

We are introducing a document that we call the Contributor Policy Agreement. It's a set of policies that Contributors have to agree to and sign off on to contribute to our projects. forge.starlightnet.work/Team/Meta/sr...

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 28/02/2026

Most importantly, we've introduced a document that we call the Contributor Policy Agreement. We'll be talking more about that in a separate thread, but you can find the document here: forge.starlightnet.work/Team/Meta/sr...

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 28/02/2026

We've added some emoji reactions to our Forgejo instance which all contributors may use

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 28/02/2026

Then, we've shitposted, which is incredibly important to our Very Real Business™

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 28/02/2026

Also from the 'moving forward' post: We have a proper process now for when we test new (networked) software, like tangled, such that it's clearer to everyone and it isn't a constant back-and-forth of where we can be reached.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 28/02/2026

For one, we've dropped our tangled.org experiment Turns out, our values and those of tangled just didn't align. Especially regarding AI Contribution Policy You can read more at starlightnet.work/posts/moving...

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 28/02/2026

Right, we have to catch bluesky up on some stuff! Here's a thread with some changes we've done in the past few weeks:

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 24/01/2026

We have a video explaining how to join mine.starlightnet.work for y'all! it quickly goes over how to download and configure FjordLauncher, together with our login/auth server, drasl. there is more detailed instructions at drasl.starlightnet.work! #tsnmc #snmc

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 23/01/2026

The poll over on fedi has concluded, our (primary) repositories are now mirrored on tangled.org/starlightnet.work as per what people have voted for We will be mirroring more stuff over as time goes on.

tangled.org

starlightnet.work

The Starlight Network. We only mirror stuff here.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 23/01/2026

yeah, they just straight up ignored that project. Quite disappointing.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 23/01/2026

All in all, Starlight network verdict: absolute clownshow. Just use a European PDS for bluesky, or go find a mastodon instance. You can find either at arewedecentralizedyet.online/map/ Some people also made w-social.eu, to mock wsocial.eu by listing european Mastodon instances.

w-social.eu

W Social ? Wsocial? Be social! Use Mastodon!

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 23/01/2026

There's also projects like @eurosky.social that they just...seemed to have ignored, despite being *explicitly* told about it

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 23/01/2026

They hype it up as "not just another platform" and such, but really this is another Bluesky/social-app AppView that they're spinning up. It was briefly available at staging.wsocial.eu due to an oversight of theirs.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 23/01/2026

They literally just pretended Mastodon doesn't exist so they can make the *exact* same pitch but more corporate. Luckily, we have a video that shows exactly how they market this. mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/...

mastodon.social

Anuj Ahooja (@quillmatiq@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 video Even the launch video is dumb, all of this is so dumb

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 23/01/2026

We think this is, at best, highly silly considering Mastodon gGmbH, in Germany, is literally right there and serves a several-million userbase thanks to federation.

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The Starlight Network @starlightnet.work · 23/01/2026

wsocial.eu seems to try and copy X in Europe, with their current homepage heavily implying that there is no European micro logging social media site.

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