Maybe mushrooms are still in the "build userbase" phase. Soon they will begin with the enshittification, raise the prices, put normal quality of life functions behind a paywall and add ads.

[–] joostjakob@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, this actually happens. When the balance is disturbed, the mushrooms go wild and destroy young sapplings. Could be I recall incorrectly and it's actually other species. I cannot recommend The Mother Tree enough, it goes into great detail of the history of research into this

[–] logir@feddit.it 2 points 10 months ago

Great book Made me consider how we give for granted that research is impartial while actually it is not

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