That's not entirely true- you can upload your own, but you can only seed to users that do have port forwarding. On many trackers, that initial seed is all going to seed boxes with an autograb script enabled anyway, and those do have port forwarding.

Before you do this, you have to decide your strategy. A lawyer - any lawyer - will tell you not to talk to the press while the matter is going through the courts.

This isn't just a matter of law, but of technology. Part of the point of these large language models is the massive corpus of raw data. It's not supposed to mimic a specific person or work, but rather imitate ALL of them. Ideally, you wouldn't even be able to pinpoint anyone or anything in particular.

(If you're asking about a different type of AI, then disregard)

For what it's worth, there is a big problem with Lemmy.world federation. Lots and lots of posts to/from LW and other fully-federated instances take days to show, if at all.

I suspect it's something to do with their size, but I base that on absolutely nothing.

They certainly could, but using something off the shelf saves development time and costs. Not only did someone else already do the base work, but they are fixing bugs and adding features as an ongoing task. And that all happens free, without Meta spending a dime. Meta only needs to add their customizations.

There's been plenty of speculation on why they want to federate, which is much less clear. It could be an attempt to get around EU antitrust (etc) laws. It could be an attempt to usurp Mastodon as the primary destination for Twitter refugees. It could be an attempt to slurp up the data from people that refuse to give it to Meta. But this is all just speculation, and it's unlikely that they will honestly reveal their reasoning.

Reddit isn't just trying to balance the budget - they are specifically scrambling to make things work (or at least, look like they will work) for an IPO, which is a beast in and of itself.

Twitter’s weak, not worth buying,

Everything has its price. But just like Musk overpaid for Twitter in the first place, he surely thinks it's more valuable than anyone else in the market does.

I'm also sure that he values it at a price point that's higher than it will cost Facebook to create a competitor.

I love how often the posts had never actually been edited.

There are some clues on this based on recent discussions about defederation. Lemmygrad is almost universally banned as soon as an instance spins up, so far left is unlikely. The recent conversations about exploding heads are a bit less clear. Some instance operators, including a few big ones, are clearly sympathetic to the far right. But many did reluctantly ban them.

The exact viewpoints of your Lemmy experience will vary based on your home instance. If you want far left, you can have it. Same for far right. Both of these will likely remain small sections of the fediverse. You can also have a very unfiltered view (no banned instances), or a very filtered view (e.g. Beehaw).

I think the common experience, such as a Lemmy.World user will experience, will at least have some limits on how far it leans in either direction. Not because of politics per se, but once you go extreme, it tends to be full of awful people that no one wants to deal with.

That's not how people work. If they start from Threads, very few will switch to a 3rd party client. And defederation will happen anyway once Meta gets control, it's the whole point of EEE.

You do have a point though- Threads could be a threat to Mastodon even completely isolated. A lot of current Mastodon growth isn't because of its draw as a product/platform; it's simply people people leaving Twitter for something else. Threads will also be a something else, creating meaningful competition

Ironically, they are not self hosted

It's true that porn is a big part of the internet at large. You can point to countless examples where a product (even social media) lived and died by porn.

But there are also countless examples where porn was never a factor. Most of the major social platforms today have always had an anti-porn approach. It's debatable whether that helped or hindered their growth, but it's always been a thing.

Now, I can't think of any where porn was a big part of their platform that got removed, and they came out ok. Maybe that's (part of) why Reddit has been downplaying porn for a while.

Right now, there is plenty of porn in the fediverse. But there will be the same challenges as any user-submitted porn site. There's currently a big discussion about categories that are unwanted, generally offensive, and illegal in certain jurisdictions. The fediverse makes all of that more complicated. There's also a big concern about the content being uploaded directly, increasing the load on every instance that federates.

There will definitely be porn here, but I don't think it's going to work the same as it did on Reddit.