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I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.
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We’re still working on publishing the results of the census we ran a few months ago (sample size of around 600, where most users were from our Lemmy/Piefed instances)
Here is the graph for the phone question, exact numbers pending final cleanup:

We will also be fixing the data labels to be less terrible
Otter@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•New service in Japan to allow mobile users to use other carriers’ networks during outagesEnglish
12·2 days agoBoth factors are related, I couldn’t find the article I was looking for but this one touches on it too. There’s a section for cell phones specifically
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galápagos_syndrome
The term “Galápagos syndrome” was originally coined to refer to Japanese 3G mobile phones, which had developed a large number of specialized features that were widely adopted in the Japanese market, but were unsuccessful abroad.[6][7] While the original usage of the term was to describe highly advanced phones that were incompatible outside of Japanese networks, as the mobile phone industry underwent drastic changes globally, the term was used to emphasize the associated anxiety about how the development of Japanese mobile phones and those in the worldwide economy went along different paths.
When a technology advances quickly and gets adopted in the local region (ex. Japan), it can be difficult to change when other parts of the world move forward with a different standard.
The opposite can also happen, where a region is slow to change and then haphazardly moves forward when the benefits are proven elsewhere. American payment systems for example
I used Trakt in the past, but nothing recently.
If I started tracking again, the main use case would be looking up a person and getting a quick list of where I’ve seen or heard the person before. I don’t know what sites do that.
Otherwise it can also be useful if a friend asks if I’ve seen anything good recently.
Otter@lemmy.cato
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s the one killer feature of Lemmy / PieFed / Mbin?
24·3 days agoNo ads.
Incredible range of customization and third party app options.
If I need to go on new Reddit for something, I get exhausted by all of their bs very quickly






Here it is through a proxy
https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/comics/comments/1s30brf/oc_a_deaf_person_goes_to_the_doctor/