Proton will no longer post on Mastodon
Proton will no longer post on Mastodon
Proton: “We’re consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit for the latest updates: Reddit - Dive into anything”. This is unexpected, as they had around 50k subscribers on Mastodon, and mirroring posts is super easy. I find ...
Proton: “We’re consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit for the latest updates”
Privacy focused company move off privacy respecting service and suggest following them on privacy nightmare service. Are they trying to kill any trust in their own company?
This is unexpected, as they had around 50k subscribers on Mastodon, and mirroring posts is super easy.
1000% this. It's easy to mirror, so the idea that "it's too hard, boo hoo" is cover for something else. Given the recent diatribes by the head, this just seems like more indication that Proton is going to play ball with authoritarians (or at least ultracapitalists, who are bosom buddies with the authoritarians).
Proton the privacy company... "follow us on reddit"?
I think I'll cancel my services with them now. Thanks for making it easy. Idiots.
RIP, another one bites the Drumpf
Glad i left proton.
I think this is the last strike for me, where do you go from Proton, I know for vpns I'll likely be looking at mullvad, but what about passwords/email/calendar/drive?
I quite liked the setup for creating individual email addresses per service and used that heavily, which I assume will make this transition painful.
Passwords I would recommend Bitwarden or KeePass (both of which are in the PrivacyGuides wiki, particularly usefull for KeePass where there are different clients depending on OS)
Email / contacts / calendar I am still struggling on to be quite honest. I am debating right now on Mailbox.org + EteSync OR just using Posteo.de (while it has some security regressions compared to Mailbox.org, it has encrypted contacts and calendar). To be quite honest though the options available in this space are quite frustrating, it is really hard to find a solution that allows for interoperability / data portability as well as E2EE / elevated security.
i wonder if they are getting paid resources to move to reddit/meta only
I hate how volatile everything is. I think 2025 will be the year we see what companies and countries shake out. It's too early to see where all the cards will fall.
Awh. Little babies couldn't handle the heat from their own customers. Good riddance.
Now it is easy to decide whether Proton is viable or not. Not their first strike. Hopefully users now know what their philosophy is
I hope they come back. These other platforms are getting enshittier and enshittier by design.
You guys know you don't have to follow businesses on social media, right‽ Like, it's all just different flavors of their own advertisements, and you can just not interact.
I don't use their mail much, but this will get me to switch vpn to mullvad. I just wish the price was similar, proton had some sales to make it fairly cheap.
Can someone recommend a VPN that is GUI like Proton VPN for Linux? Email I've seen plenty of so the options are fresh on the mind. Thank you! :)
Windscribe
Thank you! I'm going to look into it! :)
Let's hope they consolidate their social media presence further and stop posting on most of their other profiles as well.
It's their call anyway, as is anyone else's to keep using their services or not. I don't think most of these companies' use of their official social media profiles benefit anyone, and it's certainly not a meaningful enough news for the echo they're getting. Anyone truly interested in whatever Proton AG is doing will probably have a Proton account and undoubtedly receive frequent emails from them. Any stunts made by community managers representing them are just ephemeral noise.