Back in 2014 you just bought a spare and replaced it, nowadays they all want to play the same bullshit games Apple innovated on. It was was about time an authority that ruled over a market with significant purchasing power made a decision against it.

You paid $100 for a battery replacement!?!? My Galaxy S7’s second battery cost us $12!

30 years old or older
I’m 23

Sadly not too many options where I live.

Newer phones are harder to get custom ROMs on and most of them don’t have them.

Not being bri’ish

Just kidding, I’m neither lol

Enshittification is fueled by normies NEVER LEARNING.

Boo hoo, I am so stressed! I can only fly in a gold plated private jet instead of a rhodium plated one. The west has fallen, trillions must fly

Only solution is an older phone with custom ROM

Nutjobs should just be ignored, as much as I dislike leftists Meta is an actual massive threat to Fedi.

There was a project called Yacy but it clearly never took off.

just like RSS feeds did not become mainstream while Reddit did, the current state of the fediverse will not gain mainstream popularity; however, it’ll serve as a stepping stone towards a new federated internet that’ll be seamless and intuitive for non-technically-inclined individuals and those who are indifferent to the implications for privacy and digital freedom.

97% of people will only jump from walled garden 1 to walled garden 2

97% chance of being EEE. Suddenly everyone will be coming to the Fediverse but not because they’re interested but to talk to people on Threads. Then they’re going to deviate from the AP spec slowly and become the de facto standard and so on. Or they’re going to pull a Google Chat.

Even if it was, it’s a red herring. Lemmy is AGPLv3 licensed to ensure you will always have the liberty of knowing whether a malicious instance is doing shady things with the source code. On the “enlightened” platforms you have no such possiblity. I can’t stress enough the importance of a strong copyleft license for most important software you use.

most of stack overflow, IT subreddits and SEO content farms that regurgitate stack overflow data summed up in two sentences.

Snarkiness, snobbery, walking on eggshells, opinion downvotes and in general the unbearable attitude of most redditors.

Sadly people will still jump there. It will eventually overtake Mastodon in numbers because people are dependent on the convenience of walled gardens.

Back when I was a teenager I had the blind optimism the future would be bright and we would keep all the positive trends we had in the early 2010s.

I second this, powermods are cancer.

Good, I hope they die.