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This is the bit I was concerned about.

Part of me hates the privacy implications of this, despite Google's promises. AI intimately integrating with your personal data seems the way of the future. I have to admit the FOMO is real here! Especially as I use Google Docs a lot, it's one of my main tools for work.

EDIT/UPDATE I've just had a look at the TOS for this, and its a big no from me. It wants to use your conversations with Bard as part of future training data. Needless to say those conversations include the results its pulled from interrogating your email and documents. Yikes! No thanks.

Since they are US banks, they would just move the financing to the US

No, they are in Ireland because the EU requires some of their operations to physically be located in the EU, to have access to the EU single market.

Ireland needs to tackle this by getting EU-wide consensus. It already has tough climate requirements for domestic banks, these banks are foreign subsidiaries (mostly American) based in Dublin to be in the EU. If just one EU country gets tough on them, they'll move to another. This action needs to be tied to their access to Europe & done at the EU-level.

I'd love to have more Mastodon stuff in my lemmy feed. Shame its virtually impossible as far as I can see. Do you have any idea when lemmy devs might change this?

What exactly was the issue with your verification system?

Numerous issues the site dev couldn't fully understand after hours of investigating. We've switched off email verification until the Lemmy devs fix this in an update. Additionally 2FA is often broken too & awaiting a fix.

https://ani.social/post/46684

I hope the Lemmy devs sort out email verification soon. We had so many problems we switched it off at futurology.today & went with limiting new sign-ups to a set amount per hour to combat bots instead.

incoming reddit users could be a huge benefit (familiarity) And maybe add those options (a. & old.) on the side panel with a link for tutorials how to use Lemmy and its apps

Yes, I've been thinking about how to make it as simple as possible to understand for reddit users. Where we explained it here, is an attempt to reduce things to the simplest language - https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/15pbknv/do_you_have_some_time_to_take_a_look_at/

Thanks, hadn't thought of that, we'll look at it.

Thanks. It seems email verification is what is causing most of the problems.

Thank you. This is very helpful. Someone else questioned why we are even using email verification as they said few other instances are using it.

We'd assumed it was important from the perspective of bots, trolling, spam, etc But it seems to be at the root of the problems we've been having.

Thanks for this, I'm passing it on to the developer. We've been assuming email verification is important to combat bots/trolls. I'll bring up the observation it isn't widely used. It often seems to be something to do with problems we've been having.