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Lemmy Active Users looking good

I think Lemmy is a good foothold for activitypub. Reddit has been going to shit for some time and their userbase is tech savvy enough to actually migrate to something like Lemmy in significant enough numbers for it to matter.

I can only hope it continues to grow like this

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Anon notices what they've taken from us

User serviceability is intentionally not a focal point especially when it comes to anything a person has to use day to day. Any kind of tool or appliance- and especially electronic devices, forget about it. Luckily there are off the beaten path companies like framework and fairphone, but these are hard to market to regular joes and some are unavailable in a lot of regions.

Tech enthusiasts like presumably a lot of this comment section is are lucky there's at least something out there.

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Americans are Pretty Dumb Sometimes

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Yeah same I've been looking at a few different models because eventually I wanna build my own house out of cob and be self sufficient and all that. It'd be nice to have something that doesn't take up a lot of space, can be relatively easily fixed, and gets good MPG

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i love dr bronners so much

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The overlap between health food store frequent flyers and Mac users is pretty high. I think we're talking about a particular subset of people mainly from the bay area here who started using a Mac in the Steve Jobs days and haven't deviated

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What's some amazing technology they have in Japan that's very normal to them but would blow our minds here in the US and western world?

It's kind of a relic of the past now since everyone uses a streaming service of some kind now but right at the end of physical media's lifespan, Japan had some key advantages over the US specifically because it was legal to rent albums and I believe individual songs, just like a Blockbuster. Eventually they had the music purchasing equivalent of Redbox in the form of kiosks as well with the advent of recordable Net-MD minidiscs, which only really ever saw success in Japan.