I think the biggest flaw lemmy has is the upvote/downvote system, same as on reddit. The arrows are used as an agree/disagree indicator, which buries unpopular opinions and rewards popular “low-risk” ones, thus creating the same echo-chambers we’re all so tired of.

Here’s a link to the paper, so you don’t have to read an article about an article.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289625000893

You either get cancer or you get diabetes, but you can’t have them both in this economy.

Can you actually do this or are you speaking out of your ass?

I’m a ham.

Yeah… I’m a bit chubby myself :(

Sounds interesting, I think I’ll give the show a listen.

USA defaultism at work.

When I said I miss the old internet this was not what I was thinking of!

I remember when I was in uni, living on-campus in a student dorm. Living conditions were not great, the rooms were small and they stuffed 3 or 4 guys in each room. We each had a bed, a chair, a tiny wardrobe, a shelf and half a desk. No fridge. Each fall, when we got back to school, there was an effervescent market for old used refrigerators. Everybody was buying and selling fridges for the first 1 or 2 weeks. One year we bought a 50 year old Zil fridge made in the USSR in the 60’s. We paid like €10 for it. It was heavy as hell and we had to carry it up the stairs to the 4th floor. The thing made a loud, continuous buzzing which helped drown out one of our colleague’s thunderous snoring. We loved it. I don’t remember what happened to it or who got to keep it after we disbanded, but I’m sure it still works.

I wish for a viable third party and they don’t meaningfully exist.

You and me both.

I don’t hold my breath for Linux phones ever taking off. They’d need a major player backing them to break the duopoly. Apple and Google won’t let a third player enter the market. Samsung tired at least 2 times and failed. Microsoft was squeezed out. If they couldn’t do it, no one can. We can only hope that one of the big two does something really stupid one day and basically dig their own grave.

I don’t have one. But if I want to degoogle, I’m not giving them my money from the get-go. Are there no more phones with unlockable bootloaders on the market? No more custom ROMs?

I don’t get GrapheneOS apologists. If you hate Google so much, how come you all have Pixel phones?

I just close my eyes and replay MASH reruns.

Ride gravel every day 🤘