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”
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.
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).
It’s not just the resources to mirror posts, it’s also the resources to keep up with communicating with the community, answer questions, maintain a positive presence. It’s not trivial.
I do sort of agree that it’s insane for any privacy company to be emphasizing Reddit over Mastodon. If anything, the limited resources should motivate them shutting down Reddit and keeping Mastodon. But it’s not as totally stupid an explanation as it might seem.
It’s also notable that Reddit’s features make it a lot easier to communicate with tons of people in a genuine way, with minimal effort (since it’s good at surfacing high-voted comments and letting you engage with those people). As well as making it easy to silence anyone who is saying anything you don’t want them to say, of course.
Is this because everyone gave them shit about their CEO’s breathless praise for a tyrant?
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.
Tuta has catch all addresses, meaning you can use any email on your domain and it will go into your inbox. You don’t even need to “create” it if the option is enabled - it just takes anything sent your domain and drops it into your inbox. For passwords, you can’t beat Bitwarden/Vaultwarden. Tuta has a calendar (but I don’t really use it, I use self hosted WebDAV instead). I’ve not needed a cloud drive (I have a NAS and nextcloud) so I can’t really suggest anything for that.
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.
