- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
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”
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Glad i left proton.
Is this because everyone gave them shit about their CEO’s breathless praise for a tyrant?
No, they’re just compromised.
What do you mean?
It doesn’t take a whole lot more “resources” to run a Mastodon account than a Reddit sub and I very much doubt they’d leave over hurt feelings. They’re just cozying up to the incoming “security” states and corpro sphere because they decided it’s in their interest to do so.
At worst, they’re already the man in the middle.
At best, they think if they publicly endorse the fascists they’ll be able to sell privacy to the masses.
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.
I hope they come back. These other platforms are getting enshittier and enshittier by design.
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.
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.
RIP, another one bites the Drumpf
i wonder if they are getting paid resources to move to reddit/meta only
Now it is easy to decide whether Proton is viable or not. Not their first strike. Hopefully users now know what their philosophy is
