I've been switching to Lemmy.

It's like Reddit but not owned by a public corp.

Reddit still has more users but Lemmy is more like old school distributed web, not just an ad product pushed by coked out MBA accountants.

It's reddit-like BUT it doesn't have the same mass adoption and that's why I go to reddit. I don't have time to be a saint and help their numbers, so I just go to reddit and read what I want. Really HN is the only SM platform that I actually participate both ways with. I just read thing on other SM sites to catch up with friends or topics (like reddit). Comments there are mostly a trash heap but on something you want to know about you can find a gold nugget every now and then.

The three big app stores are based on the west coast US.

Apple, Google, and... ?

If you include Steam, we need to include XBox, Nintendo, and Playstation too; I would expect they're not too different in size.

But yes, the status quo needs shaking up unless we really want to live in digital neofeudalism.

Microsoft? They have a billion users.

Or maybe Amazon which has a decent sized Android app store.

Do people really download anything from the MS store...? I got Python from there once and it's been nothing but annoyances. I guess I'm technically one of that billion users, but I'll never download anything from there ever again.

GattAIca here we come, baby!

Was there something in this submission that caused it to get shadowbanned?

Makes me think of scifi.

What if there's some kind of plastic cliff that most species in the universe don't survive?

We worry about virus epidemics, global warming, asteroids, etc.

Fitting venue for the "two astronauts, always has been" genre of meme.

The Incredible Fusion Machine

Until it isn't?

You can also just do both.

I'd rather that it use the LAN, if I'm there at the time.

Data collection and remote access can just be their own functionality.

The bravest little tiger of them all!

Perpetual learning machines