Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton's trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.
Proton is a CIA honeypot episode 978.
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
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Another L by Proton. Why would they even say it and just stop posting silently.
Even if you agree with Proton's positions it's clear that Andy is just tanking the company's image with such rookie leadership mistakes.
Incredibly incompetence which makes you wonder how competent the actual code running everything is?
Good bye privacy.
I can see a company not wanting to invest resources in a social media platform without critical mass. But for a company that itself is trying to gain critical mass, moving away from a similarly situated privacy focused platform is idiotic. It signals to potential Proton users that the company cannot be trusted and it’s very hard to recover from that.
due to limited ressources
Is it that hard to post the same thing on various social media? Maybe it is, I wouldn't know. But that sounds like a shitty excuse.
It looks like they're not up to date on X tho, hopefully they drop that shit. And they're on Bluesky, which, if not Mastodon, is a little bit better I guess.
I really don't get the hidden idea behind leaving Mastodon.
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Yeah fuck proton
I really dislike these commercial "private" solutions to surveilance issues we have but people always seem to prefer them because of strong marketing around.
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Does anyone know of a good alternative to simple login? They're owned my proton too and I have about 150+ aliases to move
I only use their Drive, I need a privacy focused alternative with a browser version in case I can't convince my family to download an app, any recommendations?
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Man. Right when I was about to buy into the ecosystem and get away from google.
[edit]: slightly less worried after reading this: https://lemm.ee/post/55314225
so the social media manager has time to clean the toilets in the afternoon