I think, unless the big players are forced out of business (either by law or by a BIG societal shift) it has simply no chance to win over the mainstream. At least not worldwide... in the EU it might stand a bit of a chance but even that is more wishful thinking on my part.
Of course it's the simplest reading: lemmy.ML is a weird instance with rather weird users, filtering THAT out (and some more) will be a benefit for the Fediverse as it prevents new users from being too much weirdet out
Real hackers social-engineered their way into high security systems decades before the first blue haired femboy nerd proudly announced "Btw i am usin Arch!"
The thing with Copilot is... it's pretty useless. I mean, i am pro AI, i use Mistral daily for various tasks and toyed with others like ChatGPT and Grok, but Copilot is surely the least capable of the big models.
I think, unless the big players are forced out of business (either by law or by a BIG societal shift) it has simply no chance to win over the mainstream. At least not worldwide... in the EU it might stand a bit of a chance but even that is more wishful thinking on my part.