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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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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.
Let’s hope they consolidate their social media presence further and stop posting on most of their other profiles as well.
It’s their call anyway, as is anyone else’s to keep using their services or not. I don’t think most of these companies’ use of their official social media profiles benefit anyone, and it’s certainly not a meaningful enough news for the echo they’re getting. Anyone truly interested in whatever Proton AG is doing will probably have a Proton account and undoubtedly receive frequent emails from them. Any stunts made by community managers representing them are just ephemeral noise.
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.
Can someone recommend a VPN that is GUI like Proton VPN for Linux? Email I’ve seen plenty of so the options are fresh on the mind. Thank you! :)
Windscribe
Thank you! I’m going to look into it! :)
Awh. Little babies couldn’t handle the heat from their own customers. Good riddance.
Glad i left proton.
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.
I hope they come back. These other platforms are getting enshittier and enshittier by design.
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.
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.
Now it is easy to decide whether Proton is viable or not. Not their first strike. Hopefully users now know what their philosophy is
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 wonder if they are getting paid resources to move to reddit/meta only
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?
RIP, another one bites the Drumpf
