I've always been a filthy casual when it comes to chatbots. Gemini+SillyTavern was my initial setup and for a while it worked like a dream right out of the box with no fiddling needed, could prompt pretty much anything with no pushback or censoring. Came back after not using it for a bit and some update must have fucked it because it kept bitching at me when I'd try to steer RPs into NSFW territory and just didn't feel as free or unfettered as it had previously. Got tired of fighting with it and tried DeepSeek for a bit but it wasn't much better. Anyways, I'm trying a local setup with Kobold+Rocinante+SillyTavern now and so far it's been really serviceable, user friendly, and generally frictionless for what I use it for. Not perfect but enjoyable enough. I'm branching out and learning more about tweaking and optimizing it, plus it's all local so no more feeling weird about Google spying on all my weird fetishes. I'm optimistic about localfagging becoming more and more viable.