I hate big tech controlling social media. I desperately want social media to be federated.
I really love community-driven social media like Reddit. Lemmy feels… too small. I really loved that Reddit let me jump into any niche hobby, and instantly I had a community. Lemmy, you’ll be lucky if that community even exists, and if it does, chances are nobody has posted in ages.
On the other hand, Lemmy is full of political content lately. I’ve basically been doom scrolling everything US election-related, and it’s really starting to take a toll on my mental health.
I know I can filter content. I know I can post and be the change I seek. Yet, it feels like an uphill battle.
Not sure what the point of this is, or if it’s even the right community to vent about this. I just really want to replace Reddit, but I find myself going back more and more (e.g. r/homekit is very active compared to Lemmy version).
Ok, the Fairphone does look really cool. I don’t plan on switching phones for a few years, but I hope they succeed.
I hope so too.:-)
OnePlus phones also used to be nearly as pure and lightweight as older Google phones, I mean from before Google started the enshittification. But they screwed up so hard, running off one of their co-founders (the tech guy, being ran off by the business/money guy), that most enthusiasts abandoned them. Also they switched from their OxygenOS to the crappy ColorOS used in cheap Huawei phones.
Afaik, nothing else has risen to fill the gap, and looking at the state of technology in the world today where every company chases after purely short-term profits to the exclusion of all else, I don’t know that there ever will be.
At which point it boils down to iPhone, if it works for someone to use that, Samsung if people like that (I don’t), or something small.
Maybe that’s what I see in Apple. It seems like they don’t make all decisions based on the short term. At least compared to other tech companies. But maybe I’m naive for thinking that.