Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton’s trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.
Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton’s trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.
This is a genuine question : how Proton stopping using Mastodon for communication make them bad ?
My understanding is that their users were calling them to account pretty heavily on Mastodon. This is a way for them to curtail that (and save face) without answering to the users there over the CEO’s pro-Republican/pro-Trump statements. They can’t control the narrative on Mastodon so they’re running away.
This is despite the fact that a lot of privacy focused potential customers aren’t using Twitter or Bluesky or Threads. In fact, the userbase on Mastodon that followed their account was larger than that of both Bluesky and Threads.
They’re supporting commercialized, walled-garden social media platforms instead of ones that are publicly accessible
Because it sends a message that they do not support community-driven projects and will instead support large, corporate social media.
It would not have meant anything if they were never on Mastodon in the first place.