Proton has stopped using their Mastodon account
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So first taking Trump's side and now that...
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That doesn't take lot ressource for communication on both social network.
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A bit of a stretch no? It's been 13 days since their last post, and not posting for two weeks seems to be common for them from checking their account.
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They literally say they won't be posting anymore
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After Andy Yen's endorsement of the orange utan, I would seriously reconsider using any Proton product.
Yen tried to backpedal meekly several times since then, to get out of the pickle he got himself into with his definitely-not-impressed customers, but it's a bit late for that: either he's pro-Trump or he's naive. Either way, he makes Proton sketchy.
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Do you have any recommendations for someone who just uses them for email?
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I saw that part after i posted the comment then promptly deleted it. My bad
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Not OP, but I’ve been using Fastmail for a few years now and have had no issues with them.
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I've been a Runbox customer for many years. Never had any problem with them. They're located in privacy-friendly Norway.
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It depends how they are doing it.
People learned years ago that there is a big difference between microblogs (twitter), blogs (facebook and tumblr), and message boards (reddit). And there are major differences even within those. The post you make for tumblr and the post you make for facebook are targeting very different audiences. Which IS time consuming for a good community manager and is shitty 100 character blog posts for someone's nephew.
From checking out their bluesky, it looks like proton is pulling out of all the microblogs in favor of just reddit. Which sucks but is "fine". And it is likely more that positive engagement on Mastodon was just too low to even be worth multi-posting once every two weeks. Which.. is something a lot of not shitty companies have decided to be the case.
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I'm a happy mailbox.org user
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Hotmail. Been using it since high school and every data breach and fuck up taught me something new.
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Been very impressed with Runbox since Andy turned out to be an idiot.
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Thank i didn't saw from this perspective. On mastodon the character limit is very small so i didn't understand how difficult it could be as i would do the same communication.
In my opinion, they wanted to avoid the backfire from their ceo supporting Trump.
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It's kinda weird though. Mastodon can have a pretty high character limit, on par with a reddit comment length.
The instance my author account is on has it set to a much higher limit. Enough so that I can post a short story in two, maybe three sections.
If it's the lowest possible character limit that's the problem, they could definitely get around that with damn near zero effort.
Which is whatever, I get that streamlining social media reduces time costs, I'm more questioning the one they chose in terms of how much upkeep it'll be compared to other options. Reddit is going to have a lot more bullshit to wade through.
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I've got an account with tilde.club
They even have a newsgroup service for the tilde community. It's not full on Usenet and there aren't any hosted files, but it's a nice community feature.
You get a gigabyte soft cap (three gig hard cap and a week grace period to get back to soft cap) but it actually talks to google, for the time being, and I've been making an attempt at migrating to the point of using gmail as a 'talking ot my republican family' and 'spam' account.
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Tutanota
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Not even Bluesky, they went straight to Reddit. Shame.
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I wonder if Andy was watching fuckface destroy Unity, and just thought to himself, What could I say or do to aggressively power-fuck the Proton brand?
