Beta uses generative AI, called "Apple Intelligence" to power Siri, while the latest production release uses the old engine that Siri has been using for many years. You need to be on the beta to see this flawed answer.

The "Best of both worlds!" was the part that should have told you that it was a joke. That and the fact that the statement is purposely ridiculous.

You underestimate how uninformed people are.

I guess I'm lucky to be on lemmy.ca, but it's concerning that a lot of the popular stuff is located on two servers. What's the point of the fediverse, then?

I did see Connect a lot in my local feed, as its dedicated forum is a community in my account's instance. It looks promising and I'll try it out. Thanks for the suggestion.

I'm waiting for Sync for Lemmy to arrive. I've just been using the website on mobile. It's not that bad!

Wow, that's incredible. I've been using a tampermonkey script to sort of emulate the feel of old.reddit, but this is essentially one-to-one. Thanks.

People signed up for Threads because it was "the hot new thing," not because people wanted their data to be collected. I bet most users don't even realise how much data is being collected from them.