The homeless have already graduated to qr codes in china. I’m pretty sure something similar will happen in the rest of the world.

Didn’t fairphone start selling Bluetooth headphones after getting rid of the headphone jack

The problem is that in order to become a proper reddit replacement Lemmy needs enough users to create niche communities.

There are plenty of active communities related to technology and politics but there is no equivalent to r/batmanarkham or r/letgirlshavefun.

Plus there are plenty of communities that are all but abandoned. We need more people to actually be a proper forum.