@feditips This is not that big of a deal.

Coming from 25+ years of using email, usenet, IRC-- all things where you have to "pick a server"-- that part of joining Mastodon didn't phase me.

BUT I really picked the wrong server for me the first time around, then went through two more before finding the one I really feel at home on.

Get people in the door. They can worry about picking a server after they get their feet wet.

And while they won't be able to port all their posts (because of AP), they will be able to move their accounts to new servers if/when Eugen finally sees enough zeroes on the check.

@feditips Not that I dispute the value of federation, but wouldn't it be almost as easy to DDOS thousands of little servers? Or are all those little servers sitting on a lot more spare bandwidth/CPU than the single large server?

@darius What about the direction the copyright office is taking where the output of AI is not eligible for copyright? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-copyright-office-rules-ai-generated-artwork-content-not-legally-protected/ar-AA17TMuX

Calling these outputs the speech of the person/company who coded the AI would seem to imply that SOMEONE should be able to copyright these outputs.

Personally I prefer the idea that all these outputs are automatically public domain, given that they didn't get permission for most/any of the code/images/text in the training corpus.

But if strict liability hamstrings these LLMs, that works too.