The workers are responsible for all of the wealth of the company. It's only fair they become the owners. Without them, Ben & Jerry wouldn't have been able to expand beyond their single ice cream parlor in 1978.
They should've made the company into a worker owned cooperative, but they prioritized personal profit.
They each use a different backend, and their web UI's are designed with their own unique backend in mind.
There is Photon, a third-party web UI/client that may someday be compatible with both Lemmy and Piefed, but currently only properly supports lemmy.
As far as I know, Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin essentially are just displaying the data made available from ActivityPub in different ways, like the comment aggregation for crossposts.
Lemmy is a software that people can host on their computer, and many people doing that form what is essentially a bunch of mini-reddits that can talk to each other to create one big platform.
Piefed is trying to fulfill the same goals as Lemmy, and is even fully compatible with Lemmy, so someone hosting a piefed server on their computer can join in with all the Lemmy servers, and to the Lemmy people, it appears to them like any other Lemmy server.
But underneath everything, the code base is entirely different. The commonality they share, along with mastodon, is they all use ActivityPub, which is the standard that allows them to all communicate and be compatible with each other, just like there's an email standard.
Kbin (now Mbin) is yet another Lemmy compatible software that you can host on your computer, but it also tried to implement features that make it more like mastodon (twitter-like), so it can act both like reddit, with threads and comments and communities around single subjects, or be like mastodon and work with hashtags and following individuals instead of communities, like a microblogging website.
They also use different interfaces, but it's only visible to people who directly use that server; to others who access it from their home server, it'll adopt the look of the software their home server is using.
So as an example, you are using Lemmy since your home server is Lemmy.ml. if you visit a community hosted on a piefed server from within your Lemmy, like !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social, it'll look like any other Lemmy community.
But if you directly go to that piefed server by going to https://piefed.social/c/fullmoviesonyoutube you'll see it from the piefed interface, since you're accessing that piefed server directly.
All of three of the different federated Reddit-like softwares are intercompatible, so they all make up one big network.
That's a pretty compelling article, and it brings with it some much appreciated relief.
And to anyone else who reads it, don't let it make you complacent! It's likely true that they simply don't have the logistics or political capital to pull off what they're hoping for, but that doesn't mean they can't eventually build the logistical network so they can. We need to keep building up local communities and local resilience so we can keep the pressure on and win this, as it won't resolve itself.
They had agreed to plug stoplillinggames in their newsletter, then pulled out last minute, likely because they were worried it would piss off the publishers who sell on their platform.
I'm not German, but I would know better than to praise a pick from the AfD.
The Proton CEO thought that the party taking bribe after bribe from oil companies to Tech-bros, and which removed the FTC chairwoman that was bringing anti-trust cases against amazon and publicly criticized Google's monopoly, would somehow install a good, pro-competitive and consumer rights advocate?
If he genuinely believed that, then he's either wildly out of the loop in one of his company's largest markets (which I'll grant as possible, CEOs can be pretty out of touch with reality), or a fool.
This praise is, itself, ass-kissing the orange, likely in the hopes of getting in the good graces of the administration.
This article shows what happened: https://techstory.in/proton-mail-faces-backlash-over-claims-of-political-neutrality-amid-ceos-praise-for-republican-party/
Unless something has changed, I believe Windscribe also allows port forwarding.
AirVPN does as well, but as they are based in Italy, I think they may have to comply with the new Italian VPN anti-piracy law enacted there.
The workers were not paid what they generated in value, they were paid just enough to make them do the work reliably without leaving. The excess value they made went into growing the business and employing yet more workers, which increased the value of the business tremendously. At the end, all of that extra value went to Ben & Jerry at the sale, not the workers who made that transfer of wealth possible.
Ben & Jerry did not personally contribute 325 million dollars worth of labor into the company, they decided to take that excess value for themselves.
If hypothetically Ben & Jerry's had been a worker owned coop from the start, if they had decided to sell it in 2000 for 325 million, that money would've been split amongst all of the workers fairly evenly, and all of them would've been made very wealthy from their collective labor, instead of only two people.