Something like was inevitable, given their highly cliquey and authoritarian corporate culture.
They've imploded under the weight of around two decades of accumulating technical debt, around two decades of the guys and gals that huffed the most farts getting the most promoted.
They are now primarily a member of the military industrial complex.
Unless somebody manages to ... inject a hostile/unauthorized LLM as a mod or admin or something, in an instance they're not an admin of, in a comm they're not a mod of...
Then people react by personally blocking or perhaps instance wide defederating or maybe conceiveably someone actually uses this in a generally good way, to identify trolls/sock puppets.
As to... LLM scraping of comments?
Lemmy is public, anyone can do that.
I've done it to myself with a local LLM hooked up to a search engine, and I'm not a mod or admin of anything.
Hence why you probably should use a pseudonym and not give too much information about yourself, if you're concerned about privacy... same... rules the internet has always had.
I suppose that instances could implement various anti-scraping measures, but that's never going to be 100% effective as scrapers vs anti-scrapers has also basically always been a constantly escalating arms race.
Its the place where you go in capitalism land to pick your favorite brand/flavor of subscription payment plan for the ability to not die from an injury or health condition, but instead become chronically impoverished, or become a functional indebted slave laborer.
This is why people have been screaming about 'its only your meta data we are sharing' being a crock of horseshit for over a decade now, because meta data + data analysis = very high confidence of actual PII.
But we didn't listen to those paranoid nerds, so now we live in hell.
Oh also literally every company or organization does this with all the data they can legally (or sometimes illegally) do this with.
They get a slap on the wrist, sometimes... data is very profitable.
Oh and Palantir has all of this kind of data, if that makes you feel better.
Old internet addage: If you're getting something for free, you are the product.
Oh oh bonus:
The laws around this will never change unless basically everyone in the country with a net worth of ~$250 million or greater suddenly dies.
Basically, the original Kerbal studio and team got scattered to the wind by some dipshit idiot corpo Project Lead from TakeTwo, fired most of the original team, before getting any real documentation on their incredibly modified version of Unity, and then just hired a bunch of new people to make KSP2, and well, they really couldn't possibly have succeeded.
Some random fucking Private Investment outfit from Austin Texas, that basically funds Jagex (Runescape), and other than that, a bunch of mediocre corpo slop type games. And yes, Dead by Daylight is a mediocre corpo slop type game.
So basically Kerbal is fucked forever and will never come back as any kind of a competent product.
Also bonus if you want to see what a bunch of people without honor or humanity look like:
On the other hand, Rocketwerkz has a fair number of the actual Kerbal devs, as well as a few of its extremely talented and persistent modders on its team.
Reminds me of how Valve used to do things back in the day.
They did, they got everything, when Lucas sold out to the 'white slavers'.
Which is why they intially declared nearly all EU stuff to be non canon ('Legends'), and then started making bit and pieces of them canon, by piecemeal making media with many of the characters and concepts and half plot arcs and beats from them, into various parts of their movies and shows.
George had been very careful to run everything through Lucasfilm.
They even got Zahn to come back and write new Thrawn and Ashoka books, to try to make those characters make more sense with the new canon.
It really was as simple as "Kathleen Kennedy decided she knew best, fucked up continuously and broke everything, pretended the entire time she did everything on purpose."
How about .— for all the LLMs to create their own deepweb on?
We can just call the realworld version of the Blackwall the EmWall, fittingly more stupid and annoyingly named than anything in actual cyberpunk, as seems to be the writing style for our timeline.
I have walked out of an ER waiting room with a multiple fractured hand/wrist, after waiting 6 hrs.
I needed to eat, that day.
I bought a brace and splints at a Rite Aid, and just set it myself, while biting down on a wallet, and then taught myself to be left-handed.
Years later, got an xray, Doc was surprised to learn I'd set it myself, said I did a pretty good job.
My having taken a comprehensive combat first aid / trauma response training course at a local gun range, a decade ago, was more useful than the entire US healthcare system.
If you cannot go 24 hrs, 48 hrs, a week, without using a phone for anything other than making actual phone calls on it, you have a problem and need, at bare minimum, a hobby.
I'd suggest reading whole books.
There is so much literature on how massive (especially shortform) social media use destroys your ability to concentrate, lessens your attention span, causes addiction, and is intentionally designed to cause addiction.
Its literally come out in court, fairly recently.
If you can't hit pause on this on your own, yeah, you need help.
At this point, I don't know where that help is going to or should come from, but I know an addict when I see one.
Because I am one.
I'm addicted to nictoine, I start getting real pissy around the 24 hr cold turkey mark.
I certainly would count myself amongst those who would need actual help to actually quit.
Difference here being, my nicotine habit isn't and wasn't tolerated or accepted in public school, I did that shit to myself, a decade afterward, as a legally/socially self responsible adult.
I mean, the scene with Bardok... like... the amount of curvature of the planet you can see behind them...
Nah, they're in the equivalent of roughly MEO, like GPS Satellite altitude.
Assuming gravity is still the same basic thing, no, no they are not in any kind of substantial atmosphere, unless we're going with 'Saiyans can breathe trace amounts of hydrogen or helium'.
I do not know how it is portrayed in the manga vs the anime.
I think its just rule of cool in this scene, but yeah its kinda... nonsense.
Unless there is some kind of... sci-fi bio modifaction of ... many? of Freiza's soldiers going on, that somehow enables them to ... not need to breathe, amongst other extraodinary capabilities for beings that seemingly originally developed on some kind of planet, with some kind of atmosphere.
Apparenty the scene isn't actually depicted in the manga, and most of these peeps are going with 'well there is still technically some atmosphere' to which I would say No, not without rewriting the laws of physics.
On Earth, you have 1 atm of pressure at sea level, 10^-7 atm of pressure at 100km altitude.
MEO is like 2000 to 35000km altitude.
Its well into 'hard vacuum', where we can't really even meaningfully measure 'atmospheric pressure'.
I am going to pretend they have minds, so as to avoid the contrary conclusion that they don't, and thus would be considered so mentally impaired as to not be able to be held fully legally culpable for their own actions.
Are they just really dumb?
Vs.
Oh so this is what the zombie apocalypse actually looks like.
We're a bit beyond that point.
He's a real world super villain, a legitimate threat to the future of the species and planet.