I don't know if small amounts of text could do that, but I could imagine if LLMs keeps get trained on data generated by itself and other LLMs (which is likely to become a major source of content on the internet in the future), the quality of output can decrease significantly over time.
Yeah, good call on walking away - that's what I would do in this situation. You really don't want to risk it, a clean bill of health is worth every cent. Just like the brand new Chlorox Extra Strength Toilet Bowl Cleaner now with Febreeze - leave your seat smelling flowery fresh.
Like the other commenter said, maintaining login session is a bit of a pain (particularly where online functionality is important in the gaming experience like Death Stranding) but it mostly works.
Cloud Save is definitely one of the big flaws. I barely salvaged my Death Stranding save after a Proton version switch (DO NOT do this for a game you have a lot of saves with), because Heroic doesn't do automatic cloud Save (or maybe it does but it's Beta? I don't recall).
I'm speaking for myself but I'm not sure if I want moderators making that decision. What you are suggesting is moderators will decide if you as an user should see content from another community, whether you asked to or not.
I mean if I want to see both subs I would just sub to both. I would not want moderators or algorithms making that decision for me, at all.
If it's nearly identical then why does it matter which one you sub to?
Being hard to use isn't a good thing but also isn't always a "bug". Some of the Fediverse behaviors are by design as an antithesis to bigcorp centralization like Reddit - the point IS to have that level of autonomy and separation (instances and individualized communities).
I get that what you described isn't exactly an argument FOR centralization but my point is it's not as big as an issue and it will probably shake itself out. You might argue that it's a huge blocker for Lemmy to go mainstream, but that's not the point.
Are you saying that if you are subscribed to a Baseball community, Lemmy should sub you to all the baseball related communities whether you consented to it or not? Is that really a good idea? And kinda sounds like you want an "algorithm" to make decisions for you.
And if you search for a "baseball" community you should see the all relevant major communities across federated instances come up anyways, so I don't think there is a problem there.
I think you are missing the point of Lemmy if you think it's "too decentralized". Too many Reddit refugees are eager to bend Lemmy into some kind of Reddit-shaped clone and failed to realize the differences are mostly intentional.
I actually think that multiple communities about the same topic isn't as big of an issue as most people make it out to be. If two "competing" communities grows to be large enough you will eventually get the similar content and it doesn't really matter which one you sub to, unless of course if one is "toxic" then the choice is clear. And you can always sub to both.
How many contributors in this latest release?