Because they need to know who to target ads for gutter cleaning systems and fat man t-shirts.

This is apples and oranges.

The shop has experience. They know it’s very probable it will break. They didn’t pay for the lesson, but you will pay for their experience. Get mad at the engineer of the phone not the repair technician.

You’ve got a better mechanic than me I guess. If you bring in an old shitty car for repairs you can expect more than one thing is in bad shape.

It makes the police state more efficient.

Who’s going inside to hold the bolt? Should have used a T-nut.

When will they change the name of Lake Michigan to Upper Lake Ontario for Canadians?

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Is that Dean Ween?

I’m that level of user that will block the ever loving shit out of everything but not do much to make it better. The problem is that once you’ve blocked everything you have pretty much zero interest in there isn’t much left on lemmy. Still better than reddit though.

Yes, but I’m talking about mass adoption. Very few users care, they want to scroll through and see stuff they like. They don’t want to curate and host and delve into the intricacies. Until such time as someone makes lemmy palatable, the masses won’t eat it.

Sailing. Boating. Sewing. Those are they tops ones I miss from reddit that had active users. Instead we have 7000 communities for linux and pervy anime.

Lemmy won’t catch on until there are groups of communities you can ban at once. Sports, Linux, German, pervy anime… It’s a very rare user who will put up with the absolute dreck of the initial feed and manually block communities until they have a feed that’s marginally personalized.

Then there’s the fact that any communities that are specific to peoples interests are completely empty.

I have a pixel 7 and it’s totally garbage. I read a tip that you should set your fingerprint with the brightness on as low as it goes, and in a dark room. It’s better with that tip, but still shite.

The next rung on the ladder to enshittification.

I thought you’d like that. Speaking your language.

I’m rubber you’re glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.

That was a statement of fact. I suggest you do some research into a thing called “discourse”

You have a shitty world view.

That’s what I was getting at though. Differing opinions are attacked around here. The lemmy “hive mind” is way more bullshit than reddit ever was.