That’s being too generous. Some may not fully understand, but many do and simply don’t care. Not sure if better or worse, but its not entirely lack of understanding.

AI or “algorithm” upscaling fundamentally creates something out of nothing. That’s what upscaling is, so it is generative because its quite literally generating “guesses” at what should be there, pixel by pixel.

Its literally the trope in movies where they’re reviewing grainy security can footage and someone says “enhance” and its magically a crystal clear image. Its just that we have technology to do that now.

I’d agree there’s a semantics argument that using AI for upscaling is different than creating new, but its just that semantics.

Also different instances hide different communities and so they don’t show up at all unless you are a direct subscriber.

I learned about this on my instance when some news communities were hidden, turns out my instance has quite a list of hidden communities, which isn’t a bad thing, but it can contribute to the incomplete timeline issue and if you don’t know about the hidden communities feature its very hard to diagnose why you’re not seeing what you expect to see.

In my case I wasn’t subscribed to some of the news communities because I would catch the top posts in /all, which keeps my subscribed feed focused on things I’m actively interested in. So hidden communities are a challenge when you use /all and /subbed in that way.