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You really don't need to care about whatever's happening with Threads as a casual user

Mostly aesthetically, but also since Linux Mint is a very stable distro updates are usually slow and the packages it uses are often a little outdated. If you're the type of person to want to update to the newest thing as soon as it's out, then it's probably not for you.

Pretty much my thoughts as well.

My bet is that they're going to allow other people from the fediverse to post on it but won't allow instagram users to see other instances. Wouldn't want your customers getting off the official servers now.

It's weird that the Y-axis starts at 1000 users, it makes it look like Lemmy was dead before people started moving. Exciting stats nonetheless.

Aside from the fact that I don't think this law will pass, I doubt it'll be effective at all. Companies will just move AI training to countries where it is legal. The most the EU can do right now is play whack-a-mole and start blocking AIs that don't meet its requirements, but at that point people will just host mirrors or use a VPN. It's just not enforceable, and the EU knows that, which is why they're so stressed out trying to figure out a reasonable law regarding AI.

Here you go: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

The graphs themselves stop at May though, and it's likely the data used is a bit delayed. Still, it's a pretty good source.

The licensing doesn't matter, most AI are trained off proprietary and copyrighted data. There's still a lot of talks in governments about whether this is legal or not, but at this point the cat's out of the bag and I doubt we'll regress back to using smaller amounts of data.

I think it's a servers thing. Lemmy.ml is under a lot of pressure lately.

I never really liked Twitter as a concept. It feels like it's built on an "old man yells at cloud" concept where people just shout their thoughts and nobody gains anything from it.

By comparison forums are there to foster discussions and communities. I thought Mastodon would be better but I spent 5 minutes and it's exactly the same nonsense.