I don't want that. Part of the fediverse's appeal for me is that people aren't constant trying to sell me things on it.
While I can understand certain communities having "suggest a (game, service, product), for the most part I really don't want to basically invite corps to think this is free real estate. And that's exactly what I think this would do.
It's seems like it would invite corps to basically astroturf Lemmy and the fediverse the way they're doing with bot armies over on reddit.
They don't explain enough about the circumstances of the arrest or how the phone was wiped. As far as I'm concerned that's probably because the law enforcement entity mismanaged the situation and supposed "evidence" and are now trying to pin whatever they can on the guy.
It's stupid that they can just do this with no actual evidence and just an accusation with no factual information provided.
Same. My pro 9 is fine. My pixel 8 had the vertical line and they replaced the whole device for free.
Yeah, or hands on use. A use case where the theory is applicable.
It's definitely grades. But that's coupled with the fact that I grasp concepts pretty fast and can understand how things work generally at s glance. The minutiae I can grasp if I am interested (it's novel), but my brain will actively jettison information it doesn't think I need or doesn't think is useful.
If I couldn't learn I wouldn't be able to do any of the trades I've been successful at. But I do see what you mean.
I did a lot better in college before I had to drop out because of lack of funds. But most of my academic career was failure after failure.
Where I learned things and inhaled books at a furious rate? Yes. Where I was successful academically? No.
It really didn't used to be this way. I remember distinctly walking into a metro PCs store in the late 2000's/early 2010's and being told by the guy there they didn't care what your name was, you could write down bugs bunny and they'd still take your payment and activate your service. But because of that lots of... Less than reputable people did just that and things kind of ended up how they are now.
I think there was at one point a switch to VOIP because of that change, and after that VOIP providers started tightening things down, so now your best bet is probably to pay someone in crypto to import an already activated phone.
Stay where you are. The Imperium knows your location and someone will be with you shortly.
Except Educated shouldn't be in quotes.
You are assuming that A. Google isn't scraping data for their own AI, B. that these companies will create their own instances (which opens them up to a certain amount of liability and requires them to retain moderation/admin and maintenance staff (which costs money)). C. That the enshittification of corporate owned versions of Lemmy and the fediverse won't push people to Lemmy sooner or later.
A fourth assumption you made is that the Threads federation push was made in order to do anything other than create hype around a feature that might draw people away from places like the fediverse. I kind of assumed (maybe I'm wrong) that they were offering it as a way to have all the benefits of federation - namely the assumption of FOSS adjacent services, but with all the "benefits" of corporate social media.
The truth is that it's likely that Meta absolutely has had a detrimental effect on the fediverse because it has things that pull users away from the fediverse. Instagram has content. For days. And because the fediverse is small (shrinking as you say), and because it doesn't have an algorithm that pushes certain content to certain users, Meta and the other services that have analogs in the fediverse continue to be popular.
A lot of this is because the fediverse still hasn't figured out a way to be profitable to content creators and we no longer live in the early 2000's of YouTube etc where content creation for free was popular.
I'd argue that a lot of the appeal of the fediverse is organic conversation and communication. The popularity of that as a whole is declining because of algorithms that tickle just the right feel good chemicals in our brains.
As for your comment about these corps investing in the fediverse? The only reason for them to do that is if they can make money off it. The major money making scheme the internet is relying on is ad service. So there's a catch 22 here. I would rather donate money to fedi services than have the fediverse infested with ads.