I've heard before that in the early days of Reddit u/spez had hundreds of alts he would use to reply to posts to make Reddit seem more popular. I wonder if he occasionally resurrects them to support political arguments he likes or to defend Reddit admins.
Using the Reddit users to destroy the Reddit users I guess.
For the companies, it's usually a case of weighing how much adding the feature will cost vs. how much they'll expand their market by adding it. For Fairphone, their whole schtick is that their phones are repairable and upgradeable, so in this case it's that they've determined that there's enough demand in the U.S. market to justify the cost of entry, as they've already added the features. In this case, the majority of people will probably not purchase a Fairphone, but that's not their goal, they occupy a market niche.
Indeed. It also reduces the cost to do the repairs, which is good for everyone.
Maybe it's to make an example of them? Let the zombie subreddits stand as an example of "This is what happens when you cross the admins."
Theoretically, none, including the United States. In practice, all of them. They are all Capitalist nations, and under Capitalism companies weaponize their massive pool of wealth and resources to push for favorable laws. Thus, any nation with for-profit prisons will see those prison companies perform some type of lobbying.
You're correct, of course, but these types of communities tend to be occupied by people outside of the mainstream who care more about these issues. Also, I think it's important people have the freedom to repair the technology they own even if the majority of people will choose not to, having the ability is still important.
The front page recently had a post get 6000+ points which was something like "I heard Lemmy will upvote anything so here's a can of fucking beans" with a picture of Heinz canned beans. Since then, there have been lots of bean memes and parody posts of the original bean post.
Not at all. The admins here are doing great work and their updates are often informative and helpful, it makes sense you'd look forward to them.
I'm on another instance, but here's some federated activity for you.
Lemmy is infinitely better for piracy discussions anyhow. Reddit is bound by legality and piracy is grey-legal at best, so while a Lemmy instance is bound by the laws of where it is hosted and is far less likely to see a government crackdown, Reddit feels auch stronger pressure to control the piracy discussions.