I'm an European so I shouldn't agree I guess but I do. There should be a basic explanation on why a server has to be picked and having a "recommended" choice to pick could ease people in.
I get where you are coming from, but ultimately words and their meanings are social constructs. Words mean what society determine they mean.
If you need to distinguish them, we can use the already coined name of LLMs as that's what they actually are. Maybe let's use Large Image Models for those non-text ones? I feel like "generators" is too generic a term to work.
But I do agree that calling them AI gives them more power than they have.
For me I jumped the ship because ever since I got introduced to Lemmy, the knowledge of who the main Lemmy devs are left a really sour aftertaste to everything.
Piefed doesn't have this baggage and as you say - Lemmy and Piefed can federate so I can still keep connected in the communities. And you can export your Lemmy profile and import to Piefed so the switch is really easy (though saved posts don't get imported, but oh well).
Except the City of Heroes one, all are unofficial. But for the shut down MMOs, nobody really cares afaik. Sure there are cease and desists for private servers for live games, but never heard of such takedowns for servers running for "dead" games.
I'm an European so I shouldn't agree I guess but I do. There should be a basic explanation on why a server has to be picked and having a "recommended" choice to pick could ease people in.