Seedance has a lot more restrictions now, but still arguably not as much, it's probably cheaper for ByteDance to run, and as you said, it at least looks good enough to be worth paying for.

Sora had all of the downsides, and attracted all of the scrutiny. Local-first is definitely the way.

> Local-first is definitely the way.

i think it's clear cloud hosted is the actual future, which people have predicted for decades. it will never make financial sense to duplicate what you can get for cheap, because it's oversubscribed, with economies of scale and "if we let this run idle it's losing us money" pressure, for hardware found in a datacenter.

this has been the case for a long while now, and will increasingly be so as data centers buy up all the everything.