How is this a meme?

No problem, glad I could be of use.

You can bring down the stake amount to 6250 tokens (~300€) by running a multi-contributor node link, but your cut of the rewards will be proportionally smaller as well.

It uses it’s own crypto. It’s not really a crypto -currency- in the sense that it’s meant to be used for payment or to store value. It’s more of a crypto -token- that’s meant to provide some limited utility in it’s ecosystem. Like an arcade token in an arcade, you can use it to play the games but that’s about it. Likewise the session token can be used to get some extra functionality within the network, like registering custom names on it’s dns like service that can be used to add new contacts instead of the long default user hash or as a stake if you want to run a node. The functionality is fairly limited right now but the devs plan to expand it soon. People also sometimes use these kind of tokens as a stock of sorts, so if the service/network becomes popular the value of it’s “stock” can grow so it can be used as an investment (personally I wouldn’t recommend that but whatever floats your boat [not a financial advice btw]). The node operators profit from selling these tokens to whomever wants to buy them.

Inflation, those are new tokens generated by the network, the same way new bitcoin is generated by the miners roughly every 10 minutes, just without the proof of work mining part. It’s called proof of stake, ethereum uses it as well.

Tor relays only relay the traffic, they don’t store anything (other than HSDirs, but that’s miniscule). Session relays have to store all the messages, pictures, files until the user comes online and retrieves them. Obviously all that data would be too much to store on every single node, so instead it is spread across only 5-7 nodes at a time. If all of those nodes ware to go offline at the same time, messages would be lost, so there has to be some mechanism that discourages taking nodes offline without giving a notice period to the network. Without the staking mechanism, an attacker could spin up a bunch of nodes and then take them all down for relatively cheap, and leave users’ messages undelivered. It also incentivizes honest operators to ensure their node’s reliability and rewards them for it, which, even if you run your node purely for altruistic reasons, is always a nice bonus, so I don’t really see any downside to it, especially since the end user doesn’t need to interact with it at all.

Session is a decentralized alternative to signal. It doesn’t require a phone number and all traffic is routed through a tor like onion network. Relays are run by the community and relay operators are rewarded with some crypto token for their troubles. To prevent bad actors from attacking the network, in order to run a relay you have to stake some of those tokens first and if your node misbehaves thay will get slashed.

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Have a look at xmrbazaar.com, it’s not open source yet, but it will be after they get out of beta.

You can win in gambling, there’s no winning here.

Can you name some popular projects against big tech by conservatives?

The entire alt-tech sphere, I guess, but other than that I can’t really think of many projects that explicitly say they lean right or left. As far as I can tell, most projects focus on working on whatever they’re trying to accomplish and don’t mention their political opinions for whatever reason, maybe because they don’t want to alienate their users and contributors or maybe because they are made by many people, each with their own opinions, and there isn’t a single shared belief system behind it, like ThePirateBay for example. We can try to infer what political stance someone holds, like the CEO of Brave, for example, who donated some money to an anti-gay marriage bill in 2008, or the CEO of Proton, who said some positive things about the Republican party recently, but I don’t think it’s fair to assign a political affiliation to the entire project because some of the team members expressed their opinions.

Are you sure? most people working on projects against big tech tend to be very left leaning.

I think that you make a mistake and assume that just because someone agrees with you on not wanting to be reliant on big tech, they also agree with you on everything else, or you read something like

We want to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding

and falsely assign that to be a left-wing stance, when in reality most people, left or right, would support that. I haven’t seen any evidence that most people working on anti big tech projects are left-leaning. Most people don’t publicly share their political beliefs.

FOSS is for everyone. Not wanting to be dependent on big tech isn’t uniquely a leftist ideal, and it should be obvious by now that the political affiliation and community guidelines of big tech companies are entirely dependent on the current political landscape, not any moral values or held ideals, and can change at any moment.

Inb4 I get arrested for butt texting.

So the statement

There are no ethical billionaires

is (or at least can be) false. The amount of money someone has does not define if they are ethical or not. I think we agree on the premise of the argument just not on the example I provided.

I’m not, I’m just asking what’s unethical about having money. If he made it fair and square what’s wrong with that? Notch is a good example because he’s self made and didn’t have a big corpo behind him, anything beyond that is irrelevant to the argument I’m making.

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What about Eron Wolf, the founder of the FUTO foundation?

What about Brian Acton, the CEO of signal?

Did he do something bad or just haven’t done enough good? I don’t really keep up with him.

I don’t really keep up with random people’s politics, and I suppose anything short of a communist is considered far right in these circles, but putting aside the idea that anyone who doesn’t support collectivism is a devil incarnate, what’s unethical about making a game and pawning it off to M$ for a billion $?

What about Notch, the creator of minecraft?