Matrix is a good example I think: It allows a client to authorize another client so both work. It's not the same 'backup' scenario, but proves the concept can work.
Is there an easy reference for the history there? I've used it over the years but not regularly enough to see it changing.
I think the main reason for unreliability is admins defederating the instance it gathers data from. For example all piefed instances block it by default.
Not sure of the exact rules, but it might be something like it won't get data from any post or comment by a user on one of those instances.
And it's the RNG makers who are selling guns attached now.
This is why I think having agents at all is insane.
When LLMs were restricted to being chatbots, at least they "only" killed people by driving them to suicide and/or murder. (And environmental damage. And economic damage...) Now they have additional ways to do it.
I kinda miss the idea that the kernel would run on literally any hardware it ever did support, but I totally get it, especially now that there's an emphasis on reducing attack surfaces.
Honkai: Star Rail has a few of those, including right at the beginning where there's a choice not to get on the train. If you decide not to, credits roll,
and it describes your boring life and the main characters dying without your help. Then it returns to the point before the final decision and forces joining this time.
Yes. I think it's getting even worse, and the hate is spreading in the younger generations too.