AndreasChris

u/AndreasChris@lemmy.world
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To add to that, Fairphone is also regularly criticized that they're struggling to keep up full support for devices that are just a few years old. But unfortunately most of their issues are not their but their suppliers fault. Once the manufacturer of a specific component stops Firmware support for that component, it gets really hard to provide fixes and support once firmware-related issues arise. So that's more of a general smartphone-industry-problem, in that the life cycles of the 'big players' are much to short, giving hardware-manufacturers an incentive to stop firmware support for older components quite quickly.

I guess we have to differentiate between issues that Fairphone has control over, and issues that Fairphone is simply not big enough to solve on it's own.

I guess that's also one positive aspect of Fairphone: They do officially cooperate with certain custom ROMs such as /e/os and IodeOS, and also make it significantly easier for not-officially-supported custom ROMs to exist.

Well, I'd expect so. Since it's open source and federated a corporate dick move as seen with reddit won't be easily possible here. If an admin goes rogue you can simply switch to a different instance and still enjoy the same communities, and if the developers/maintainers decided to ignore the community's wishes and go in some absurd direction with the project we'd simply see a lemmy fork maintained by a different team appear.