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  • DragonAce@lemmy.mltoCyanide and Happiness@lemm.ee22 August 2023
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    1 year ago

    Except Apple has already been found guilty of throttling old devices to try to force users to upgrade. They’ve been doing this for a long time, but they’ve only been ordered to pay a settlement in recent years for doing it with their iPhones.

    But honestly the older Macbook Airs don’t need to be throttled, they just need the old universal dongles to crap out, IIRC those things were useless without the dongle to connect all your peripherals .



  • But regardless, given all the media hype around the protests, Reddit DID take a hit to its reputation overall. I’m sure there is a not insignificant number of people still on Reddit who would jump ship were an acceptable alternative available to take its place. I still believe that as Lemmy grows, more content gets created, and the various UIs and Apps used to access increases, people will slowly move over. Spez is looking to monetize the fuck out of Reddit too, so all corporate social media sites are now heading towards some sort of paid model. I don’t know about you, but I don’t know many people willing to pay for access to a shitty social media site, be it twitter or reddit.