GoneMAD playing a local music library I keep on my phone.

They realy aren’t, and don’t.
Tuta doesn’t have even half the user base, or services.

They aren’t bad at all. And I don’t doubt they’ll get there.
But they aren’t at all close yet.

Is it funny?
By a sizeable margin they’re the largest and most popular in the space. At the same time, that makes them the biggest target and most watched.

Someone even mentioned a possible smear campaign by Google. While there’s no evidence at all of that, they would be the most obvious target.

So it’s not really funny or odd in any way. It’s kind of obvious really.

Proton’s a good alternative.
There’s some confused allegations of them being MAGA Facists. But it’s a combination of misunderstanding and misrepresentation.

It’s just another affiliate link. Like many companies offer, anyone can sign up with their “Partnership Program” and generate an affiliate link to get a kickback on new signups. This isn’t a specific sponsorship or direct advertising deal that Proton sought out or directly paid for.

Proton offers 3 kinds of Partnerships.

• Channel Partners: Resellers basically. If you want to offer email service to your customers, you can do so through Proton. You have to communicate directly with Proton people to set this up.
• Influences: These are are traditional sponsorships and advertisement arrangements. Again, you need to communicate with a real person for this.
• Affiliate Links: Open to anyone really. All you have to do is fill out an online form. That’s all it takes to get a link that pays you a kickback for any signups through that link. They do have an “approval” process and have stated they’re working on making the vetting process more through. Especially for companies in countries with languages they don’t directly have native speakers.

These “SCANDALS” are just people signing up for affiliate links and then promoting them.

It was trying to show how Star Wars could grow into more complex storylines than good Jedi vs evil Sith. How the concept of balance the previous films tried to talk about could be reinterpreted as a search for balance within one’s self. Reconciling ones own light and dark aspects makes a whole person. An idea epp 6 started with the turning of Vader at the end.

Also there was the idea of getting away from the power of dynastic bloodlines. The idea that The Force could choose anyone.

Finally there was shoehorned in there a message about the inequality in the galaxy, even with the new republic having taken control. There was still the ruling ownership class, and the exploited working class. That part I’ll admit, was very forced and inelegantly tacked on. Should have been saved for the next trilogy.

Privacy is about activity.
Anonymity is about identity.
Security is about ensuring the other two.

I would say: Privacy is everyone seeing you come and go from a house with no windows.
Anonymity is when you’re covered head to toe when you come and go. So nobody know who lives there.
Security is a measure of how good your locks and coveralls are.

Real world examples: Going to a protest with a mask is anonymous, in public.
Sessions with your court appointed therapist are private, not anonymous.

Epp 8 had something to share, say and show the world.
But some of the fans weren’t happy about it.

Again, the middle one was the best.

So many people conflate privacy with anonymity.
They’re largely unrelated.

Most sensitive way to reply? Where’s the fun in that?

“Okay… I thought we knew that already?
You still in for this weekend? Or do you have like, official duties now?
I get it if this means you’re too busy to hang much anymore.”

Or you could play dumb.

“Cool!
What’s that?”

Some of the devs make a living now on it now, I think. I don’t know any people famous for being on Lemmy yet. It’s too small still, and network effects keep people on the larger services. But does any of that mean it’s not possible? No

You say that on a social media platform built by volenteers, doing it for donations. People do things for lots of reasons, money is only one of them. And not even the strongest for most people.

Not realy. Like Manhattan it has roads for cars, but it kinds sucks. Much better on foot until you get out of the city.

Those are details that can be organised on a company by company basis. It could be built into the original incorporation contract. I’d expect an automatic union would be created and get some increasing portion of the company over time, based on milestones or simply time. It can done countless ways.

You should check out Cyberpunk 2077

Yes. They would own it. Along with the rest of their employees.

How far do you want to take this? Companies exist. They still would in a socialist economy.

Nobody is talking about a post scarcity world where money doesn’t exist, and nobody hast to work for a living.

But to answer your question they could get loans to fund the beginning, and once they reach critical size they can monotize the same way YouTube does now. Being employee owned doesn’t mean they can’t harvest data or charge subscriptions.

To YouTube still. Which is now owned by all the Google employees.

Socalism is when people who work at a company, own the company, and share in the profits. But not everyone will want to do that. Some will still want to do their own thing. They’d be paid by people (viewers in this case) same as we do now.

No. Even in a socialist utopia, there’ll still be “influencers” who become famous online.