@TheBlackLounge
@lemmy.worldThey're often too tight or too loose, and you have to reach behind closets so you can't see the color to match, and you have to put them in at weird angles.
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.
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.