Its harm potential is somewhere in between. To put it in perspective, alcohol is worse than heroin. And like alcohol addicts, your friends should be able to get a clean and safe source to reduce damage, and the help they need without any fear of persecution.
You can't criminalize problems away. It evidently didn't help your friends.
The new Lemmy 19 allows users to block instances so that's not unreasonable for the largest instances. Gotta show new users that users have control.
Distilling has been around since forever. It's a legitimate technique that can give you a better model depending on your needs.
OpenAI does it too to improve its models.
Congrats, how many years are you sober?
It's also a problem with algorithms. Big communities drown out smaller ones because the sorting only looks at absolute numbers. Change is underway though.
(They were not serious)
Why would a nonprofit org do that?
Liking cats and dogs are not mutually exclusive what's everyone on about?
Defederation? What happened?
It changes only when you disable regional search.
We'll be driving monster trucks in 2033
What held the Egyptians back?