Music discovery is the greatest feature besides having most music available without having to rip it first. Shared playlists are fantastic as well. The platforms automatically recommend music for you, can play music similar to one song you like, and so on.

How do you share a curated playlist of songs with someone else without something like Spotify?

Swiss direct democracy is a better example than Soviet system.

Surveillance capitalism knows more about you than government agencies.

You should be able to enjoy a concert without being put on display.

I don’t want my picture taken when I’m high as fuck and make out with strangers while partying.

How observant and insightful of you.

The road rage amplifier.

In this case Apple also prioritizes performance.

There’s still some information on certain topics, where it is the best place to find it. OSINT for example.

People who use Twitter to publish and have a large audience are reluctant to leave their followers behind. Convincing followers to go over to a new platform is not so easy. If you fear losing 70% of your followers, if you switch to Blusky, or 95% if you switch to Mastodon, then it might be risky financially.

Network effects are strong.

Sure. What I don’t get is Fairphone not building a high end device.

Assembling a 1500 € phone should cost about the same as a 600 € phone. A more expensive phone also gives a bigger margin to work with to pay for all the extra labor and other „fair“ costs.

Then a Fairphone could become a status symbol as well.

The hardware specs have always been mediocre on the Fairphone. Buying a high end phone will get you more years from the same phone.

This should run pretty much every distro just fine.

A centralized platform providing infrastructure could be financed using a tax on every internet subscription.

Enpass works well for me.

Shoutout to !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Matrix/Element has shitty usability and reliability compared to Discord.

For lots of communities, they could use modern forum software like Discourse with better results.