There could have been a defect that caused immense stress in the glass. Alternatively, there could have been microscopic cracks caused by mishandling. Or both. Either way, a tiny temperature fluctuation was probably the final straw that broke the camel’s back. The actual root cause probably happened several years ago.

Nowadays, things are documented pretty well. As long as the documentation is available, I don’t think there’s anything that would be common but mysterious.

However, if data is lost, pretty much everything becomes a total mystery. Like, popsockets and phone cases for example. How would you figure those out in a thousand years if you haven’t read any blog posts, reviews or marketing material about any of this stuff. If you don’t know how expensive, fragile and useful phones are, and how would you figure it out that people are so worried about cracking the screen? Pretty much none of that data is on paper, so loosing that information can happen very easily.

Plastic crumbles to dust sooner or later. This means that most electronics are going to look pretty bizarre in a thousand years. Even common kitchen appliances use so much plastic, that they will look completely different. There are also a million ways you can make a kettle, so the remains of all of them won’t look very similar, especially when all you have left is the metal parts.

Pretty much everyone has, but that’s not the problem here. What if you don’t really want to give them a unique identification number like that? What if you don’t want them them to know you that well? What if you’re not even planning to use your real name at all.

Back in the old days, you could register an account without giving your phone number. Nowadays, pretty much all the big social medias won’t let you register an account without a number. I guess that’s not a big problem for people who don’t care about privacy, but for me that’s a total deal breaker. This means, that there’s a huge barrier to entry.

This kind of strategy will only make America lonely. Who can trust a partner like that?

That is a valid point. If we take those numbers with a hefty heap of salt, Reddit would still be 10x or 100x bigger than Lemmy.

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Reddit seems to be about 1000x bigger.

It seems to come with the corpo hellscape system, you know like, Cyberpunk 2077. Close enough, I guess.

Trump is taking America back to the 50s, UK skips straight to colonialism.

How about using Patreon?

Back in the DVD days, people would buy those DVDs to show their support for a specific cause. The DVD itself wasn’t really the main thing. Support was.

Instead of just donating, people can spend roughly the same amount of money, and get a t-shirt, hoodie or a DVD in return. It’s sort of like a donation, but it feels different, and you get some stuff as well.

The modern version of that would be Patreon. Publish your gymnastics videos on there, and give the access to those who support the club. People don’t see it purely as a donation, because they get to watch your exclusive videos too.

An AI can also do the job, spend the money on Netflix and watch the movies for you.