Kaul

Definitely agree with you, but as I said originally, OSS doesn’t really have the capacity to tackle this stuff… You can’t say “we have no AI apps” if you don’t have a way to constantly be checking and guaranteeing that.

However, if this is really a major problem for you, maybe try contributing to a project you like? Look for AI apps and send take-down requests to the devs of the app store you found them on.

Might not be the simplest solution, but as the saying goes, “be the change you want to see in the world”.

I mainly use F-Droid and unfortunately I’d say a lot of the “new” and “recently updated” apps seem like they were most likely made with AI.

Idk if it’ll be easy to find an open source app store that completely restricts AI content, because that means somebody would have to be manually monitoring it and investigating each project that’s uploaded, which most OSS doesn’t have the capacity for.

Does Joplin really take a long time to start up compared to the rest? I just got it downloaded and synced with my server yesterday and so far it opens up almost instantly every time.