When I asked someone about it, they basically used them like bookmarks.

I’ve tried those. They aren’t as good as YouTube Premium.

But in exchange for loosing those music features, I gained ad free YouTube Premium.
So yah, I keep the subscription.

That’s how much I pay for YouTube Premium.

I also buy CDs, or Bandcamp downloads directly for those I really like, and want to donate to.
I “curate” whole discographies of stuff that I want to “archive”.
But when someone recommends music I haven’t heard of, I load up their most popular stuff on YouTube Music and listen to a bunch there, ad free. Then decide if or how I obtain more.

I still have the original Google Play Music All Access intro deal of $7.99/month from 2013.
They contractually can’t raise the price on me ever. 12 years so far.

It’s not supposed to answer the question. It’s pointing out that the mental model and assumptions behind the question are flawed, and thus the question itself is flawed.

Use it for what? Genuinely asking.

It sends files and stuff between devices right?
But it’s limited to what’s nearby?
I’m not sure how it’s better than messaging platforms, they do that pretty well. And from any distance.

I’ve literally never used, or thought of using a feature like this.
I got my family and friends useing Signal. Use that for photos all the time, in person or not. Files, maybe a couple times in 5 years.

It only encrypts the data within the HTTPS packet. But where that packet is going is still transparent.

It also doesn’t do anything for non web traffic. Email through SMTP or IMAP, FTP, lots of things don’t use HTTP at all.

with a single account (isn’t that the point of the fediverse?).

Absolutely not. I’m not sure why people see Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube, Loops, etc as all the same thing that should all be one app.

They might communicate with the same protocol, but they have vastly different uses, interfaces, styles, and experience. It’s like saying you want one vehicle that drives like a motorcycle, haules the kids around, gets great mileage, and can tow 20,000lbs.

All your tools fit in the same toolbox, but you use each one separately for the use it’s best suited. Then you put it down and pick up another. Sure you can make a multi-tool but it won’t do any job as well as a proper dedicated tool. It’ll just kinda work if you have no better option.

Taller is more expensive. That’s all.
If you have the space to go wider, that’s what everyone does.

But VPNs aren’t supposed to make you anonymous.
They secure your data while in transit to/from the exit node. Maybe that’s your job so you can access their LAN. Or it’s a public VPN that secures your dada from the local WiFi or ISP you’re directly connected to. That’s all it’s built for.

Yah. But you realize that someone could simply lie to you right?

Thata what focus means.
If you’re spliting your focus onto several things, you’re not actually focusing anymore.

You think it’s single use? Only works the one time? Really?

What does it need to be pre-installed?

Cheaper. More flexable.

We’re not just looking at individual “donations” to single politicians. But hundreds of them, to all the politicians. And even more to create a massive “People’s PAC” that gets continuous reliable funding for donations, adds, fake studies and all the other crap we have to fight.

They go to the highest bidder.
And the wealthy have enough now to outbid whatever we come up with.

Even large groups of people can’t put together enough money.
It also costs a lot of money to organise that kind of thing.