elgordino

Yeah. ByteDance, the owners, are choosing to block US users to kick up the maximum fuss possible. From my understanding they didn’t need to, they just risked withering away because there would be no new users.

I wonder if the target of these bot communities is not Lemmy users, but rather to be slurped up by AI scrapers in the hope of influencing future models.

There are tons of low budget indie films out there. If you want to see something other than the usual multiplex stuff check out a local film festival in your area.