@sun@Theeo123 If they really have 100M users worldwide as Proton claims to have, they don't need to spend any time doing this. They don't e.g., need new paying users to help reinforce the legal status of their non-profit.
They have no reason to attempt to acquire as much "marketshare" as possible.
Do they really have a ton of extra capital to burn and don't want to pay it out to themselves? Why not invest it in open source, pay for more audits, etc?
My spidey senses about Proton have been tingling for years now.
@sun@Theeo123 there's just something extremely smelly about convincing people to convert to your password manager by paying to acquire them while representing yourself as a non-profit. A non-profit shouldn't even have budget to do that in the first place.
@pixelfed@loops buddy it feels like it's been like 5 years, how much longer are you gonna go on telling us about an app but never releasing it?
I've never seen an open source project developer yank people's chain for this long before. Wake us up when you've released it; we don't need weekly reminders of vaporware
@Theeo123 I do, in fact, distrust charities because they're mostly a grift. They get to pay their execs millions in compensation and still claim to be a non-profit.
@EvilSandmich@mloxton@sun when the war is over and the real numbers come out you'll just deny those too, so I don't see the point of having this conversation with you.
> Despite this, soldiers’ rights groups have told The Moscow Times that while not officially banned, sending conscripts to combat has been generally avoided by military leadership given the unpopularity of such a move.
> Wikipedia says Russia started the war with 127,000 troops
I don't know where you got that number from, Russian active service members in 2024 is measured at ~1.32 million. If Russia only had 127,000 troops they wouldn't be one of the largest military forces in the world.
@sun@mloxton@EvilSandmich we can certainly make a good estimate. If we can figure out exactly how many tanks Germany is making per month with some statistics tricks we can figure this out too.
Company builds product off free public information ➡️ launches product ➡️ THIS IS BAD
Person trains themselves in programming, networking, art etc using free information and tools, learning from others, etc without paying for any artworks or for any learning materials (CCNA, programming certification courses, etc) ➡️ gets a job ➡️ THIS IS GOOD
@stefano@zirias actually I think I have the answer. It won't show up in the normal timelines because it's a reply to an *unlisted* (quiet public) post.
Those are not meant to show up in timelines, only when you open the thread directly. So your public reply is being excluded because it was a reply to a quiet public post. Makes sense.