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  • Imagine if you played monopoly but everything on the board was already owned by somebody else and the prices to buy any property from that other party were more than you start with and every time you go around the board all you can do is just do your best to break even.

  • I'm not sure about the technicals, but there are some services that are HIPAA compliant, which I assume means something similar to the end-to-end encryption you're describing. WebeX is the one I know one of my local hospital systems uses.

  • The uptime issues you are seeing is mostly due to the fact that you are on lemmy.world, which is now by far the largest lemmy instance in terms of userbase. That means it experiences heavy loads which can cause interruptions plus it's been the target of DDoS attacks for like the past month or so. If you switched to a different instance you wouldn't see nearly as much of those issues.

  • As someone who has been in the professional music scene for over a decade trying to 'break through' and has seen many others trying the same, sometimes it's about how good people are at their instrument/songwriting/art but more often it's about luck and what connections and/or funding you have. I've seen people who are truly creative and work hard build impressive success from basically nothing. I also know plenty of people who are just as creative and hardworking spin their wheels and get nowhere. Frankly, i suspect this has always been the case. Ability alone has very very rarely been enough to attract great attention. In the stories of most big names you know there is something somewhere along the way where they either were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time or just come from enough money to be able to give it their full attention for years, and even then they usually need some other kind of luck.

    My point is not to discourage though, but rather to say that if you want to make art to become well known then in my opinion you're doing it for the wrong reasons. Also, if you truly like a creator you should spread the word, tell your friends, tell strangers on the internet! It's hard to convince people to give your art a try, but if someone else is doing some evangelizing it becomes much easier.

  • Isn't this self-defeating though? They'll still get their replies/tweets prioritized so it will be obvious still who has a check mark. Making fun of people who pay for that shit is going to increase if anything because now they have an option to let the world know they're embarrassed.