Mine are similar. 227 posts and 1.44K comments since 09/2021. Although about 800 of these came from explaining how Lemmy works and answering questions during the API exodus ^^
You don't need to get anthropomorphic to argue the ethical case. Besides, I have given many more arguments than the ethical aspects, while you only point to "nature", so I will not engage in this discussion any further.
Thank you for the exchange though, and I'd be happy if you would reflect on your views one day and consider the perspective of other beings.
I made the switch too earlier this year from a Samsung Galaxy S10e to an iPhone 12 and I agree to all of your points.
The only thing I liked much more on Android were the notifications. Android's notification are so much more flexible with the option to customise each different kind of notification for each app, to have silent notifications and "collapsed" ones that do not show a marker in the status bar.
Speaking of that, it is annoying that on iOS there is no indicator in the status bar if you have a notification, so that you always have to pull down to check for new ones.
Beside that, Apple ecosystem is so incredibly well integrated and in my opinions feels overall smoother than Android.
If you tell me in the same way that I’d tell you my dietary preference, I wouldn’t mind at all. I’m not in the business of telling other people what to eat or not eat and as long as you extend me the same courtesy, we should get along just fine.
The point is that this is not like having different favourite colours.
One "dietary preference" slaughters intelligent beings with complex social behaviour and emotions, the other does not.
One contributes a massive amount of greenhouse gases and thus fuels climate change, the other's impact is much, much smaller.
One degrades soils and pollutes rivers, the other less.
One leads to zoonotic epidemics, the other does not.
One leads to incredible water consumption, the other much less.
In short, one "preference" has a massive negative impact on many aspects of life and the earth, the other is a plant-based diet. Consequences!
I appreciate your effort, but my comment probably wasn't what you would call "good faith".
Even leaving aside the rather odd US scale, a liberal economic system is inherently capitalist, since capitalism is defined by private ownership of the means of production, wage labour, exploitation of workers and pricing in a market.
All this is still present in what you call a liberal economic system (even if some of these effects are dampened) without touching the root of the problem, so it is indistinguishable from, or even equal to, capitalism, whether in an unregulated or regulated flavour.
Have Codeberg allowed mirrors again now? They didn’t used to.
Seems like you are right. It is definitely not synced automatically but it seems like dessalines occasionally pushes the changes there (last time 6d ago)
I firmly believe that my contributions could be significantly amplified if there were a mirror of Lemmy that utilized Forgejo hosting outside the United States
Well, I don't think so. GitHub is unfortunately the leading platform and shifting to another one will rather lead to a decline.
However, they have an (now inactive) Gitea and a (working) Codeberg mirror but I think they only accept contribution via GitHub PR anyway.
Anyway, you could still bring this topic up (and unlike previous issues ask them to not only mirror the code but also accept PRs there). Though I think the devs would not really want to manage contributions across multiple platforms (maybe this will get better once Forgejo finally supports federation though).
Mine are similar. 227 posts and 1.44K comments since 09/2021. Although about 800 of these came from explaining how Lemmy works and answering questions during the API exodus ^^