Proton Ditches Mastodon

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Ditches fediverse but still use Xitter?

On top of the trump apointee praise?

Sus 👀

This is very disappointing.

So Proton ditched Mastodon but is still on Twitter, aka the Nazi cesspool, and Reddit. Both US propaganda platforms with heavy censorship.

Bad, bad move.

I have been defending Andy Yen's idiotic comments because he's not American and doesn't understand the hyper-reactive nature between US Americans and US politics (because our government is literally run by nazis now), but this decision isn't helping; it will fuel and reinforce the negative image already held by those who have canceled their accounts and those who are on the fence.

I'm disappointed...I tried to not care about this CEO supporting Trump, but come on...now they ditch Mastodon, tomorrow they close source their clients...I'm losing trust to them, I used to think about them as knights in this capitalist world, but well. As someone once said "You either live and die as a legend, or live long enough to become evil". I don't want it to happen but yeah, I guess we all gotta find a good replacement for Proton services, sad but it is what it is.

And now I’ve ditched Proton. Andy Yen’s comments made me skeptical, but I was still confident that their mission was intact. This move, to a social media platform with a demonstrated willingness to censor non-corporatist views, confirms my fears that they are giving up their principles.

Of all the fuckin places to move to they chose reddit 😭

I’m seriously starting to consider moving from proton to Fastmail. My renewal is coming up in May.

I have Proton email and will ditch it soon.

That's in line with being from Switzerland. Act cool, but be sure to stick with the richer people and do their interest. Never used Proton (I use Tuta instead) for that reason only. You are free to call me racist.

@ramenu .... proton recommending communication through reddit was not on my bingo card. 2025 has already been a wild ride... *looks at date*

fml

I so want to ditch Proton right now, but I have a lot of resumes out and have been using them for ~4 years, so all of my accounts are linked in a sense.

What to do what to do.. I know and fully agree that what's going on is sus, but I think I need to stick with it for a few more months until the job thing pans out.

Edit: I have a free Tuta account, I'll start weaning everything off, then cut free when I don't need to worry about missing an interview opportunity.

Can someone recommend a good and privacy oriented alternative to Proton Drive.

It's sad that Proton bought SimpleLogin because I was and I'm currently using it before the acquisition.

Why

people were using the vpn to evade reddit bans, but even reddit does not like vpn users anymore.

Add one more to the tally. Did the offer a reason?

For real? Man, at this rate, I might have to switch away from their products, I really hope they get their act together really really soon...

Man, I don't want to ditch Proton, it's the most competitive alternative to gmail Europe has afaik. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, better to have a Trump supporting European company than a Trump supporting American company...

Again??? Isn't this like, the third time they do this?

Aww, is someone booty blasted they can't control the dialog no more?

Glad I ditched proton.

I wonder if the "limited resources" are due to them potentially losing a whole load of customers recently.

You know, if their tech truly is as open-source as they market, then they've still contributed hugely to the ecosystem. If it turns out it's not actually operationally open-source, then this will be remembered in a hugely negative light.

Edit: I did just see their post about being impacted by the US spending cuts. I can't imagine Proton would be super happy about that administration at the moment. But then again, who knows these days.

So glad I moved away from Proton a few weeks ago. They seem to be going downhill.

I’m sad too. But I think it’s quite logical given people that use Mastodon probably already know or heard of proton. Marketing is particularly effective for people that don’t know of them (at least while they are small)

I switched to StartMail, I'm officially done with ProtonMail. Are you even kidding me, how just how...

I've never used Proton. I use Njalla

What did they keep?

Drama. Drama. Deama