6mo ago

Are you still here Proton?

We're consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit

Please tell us that you're not moving away from Lemmy/Mbin too. There's a gigantic tonedeafness to asking your supporters to use centralized social media at this specific time that's hard to accept you're not realizing.

(quote from Proton's mastodon.social account info - there wasn't even a post made about it)

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I didn’t think they were ever here?
- @ProtonPrivacy@lemmy.world
  is either an official account or impersonating an official account.
  
  Seems like it might be official and just joined to tell us they’re totally not worshipping authoritarians
  
  Yeah I agree. Can't look more official than that.
- Oops that's a bit embarrassing, but I really think the description should include "not an official Proton channel" or something in that case.
- It is listed in their community page which adds to the confusion.
  https://proton.me/community
  I checked since I wondered if there was some other place they are active on other than reddit and Twitter, and if they had their own forum.
After the stunt they pulled, praising Trump and the Republican party, I seriously think Proton is just a wolf in sheep's clothing. They are like Apple: telling people what they want to hear about privacy, and we all swallowed the pill.
Unfortunately Tutanota, the only other free, privacy aware service, really just locks you in and is thus worse as a choice.
Anti Commercial-AI license
- I don't even know why they care so much about US politics as a swiss company. Just do your business.
  
  Exactly! Just STFU and do your job. Giving people reasons not to pick you is just dumb.
  Anti Commercial-AI license
- Yens words were then published on the official proton blog and taken down after backlash as a "mistaken communication". Believe what you want.
  Also, their servers are closed source. Having an open source client is cute though 👍
  Anti Commercial-AI license
It's disappointing that they prefer X, Bluesky and Threads over something like Mastodon.
- The math clearly shows that Mastodon is the one to cut
I really don't understand what's so hard about this. Most companies post the most basic stuff that it would be trivial to script repeaters for.
i wish I didn't lose my og tuta email

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