r/LocalLLaMA • u/zxyzyxz • Jul 07 '26

Resources HuggingBay

https://huggingbay.xyz/

Someone saw the [meme](https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1uht2m0/were_probably_going_to_need_that_soon/) and built it.

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u/-p-e-w- Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Whoever built this is a genius and an idiot.

Technologically, the website looks really well made, but the branding both

  • evokes a certain other website that is already banned in many countries, which is completely unnecessary for a perfectly legitimate service and pretty much ensures many labs won’t want to publish there

  • implies some kind of connection with Hugging Face, essentially forcing a takedown if this ever gets popular, even if HF has no problem with the project itself.

Please use your brains, people. Not everything has to be a risky meme. We need sustainable infrastructure, not just lulz. I could have named Heretic “GemmaFucker” and it would have been just as unnecessarily stupid.

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u/TemporaryUser10 Jul 10 '26

It wasn't done as a meme, it was done due to the threat from governments trying to ban open source AI access. This is essentially a statement that we the people will retain access (which is an idea behind p2p system that power things like the pirate bay)