Proton has stopped using their Mastodon account
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Payed for by subscriptions. Protons free offerings (namely, the VPN) are severely crippled. The free tier VPN is almost trial like to sell you on the full product. I also haven't seen any of those youtuber sponsored -95% off deals other VPN providers have. Proton's pricing isn't exactly cheap which signals they do sell it at actual market rate instead of offering a cheap service which may or may not be subsidized by selling your data.
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I think their comment was tongue in cheek
like they're saying you need to pay for server maintenance -
"...join the Discord..."
Aaaaand I'm out.
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Mastodon has that too, so Wonder why leave Mastodon at all
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Use Disroot
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I'm not, they are a bunch of researchers having their servers in the country with the most privacy protective laws in the world.
Sure, criticise them when they do bad things, but what do you propose, google mail (etc.)?
If you don't have some real information you are just following a gut feeling (which by the way is the simplest to manipulate) and I think that is kind of curious actually.
I like Proton, I have their email & VPN, works like a charm, and their servers are in nuke safe bunkers in the swiss mountains.
The only other company that I have seen that isn't shady like for sure seems to be Mullvad, I mean if you hate the swiss or something or prefer the swedes ...
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Is it only me or is there some bandwagon effect on Proton hate these days?
I get it that everyone, me included, thought that sucking up to donald is a shit move, but that's about it. Proton is good.
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They can't control all the instances. I think that if they tried that with the one that I am on they would be laughed at.
Way easier for a company to make its own reddit and censor any post that talks about why you should probably start to look at moving your data before they are quietly asked to hand over all the data they have.
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Makes sense
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I have [email protected] and its a 3 letter last name, very cool.
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Out of curiosity, where did you move from Proton?
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That word has truly lost all meaning.
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Reddit has a ton of users. Mastodon is marginal.
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Something has always felt off. Swiss security is always a red flag, and free is never truly free. Don't really know who you can trust at this point. Everything seems to turn to shit as some point or another.
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Whoever posts on reddit can copy paste to other platforms, if they are to lazy to use a software that consolidates it for them.
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Hard to claim manipulation when the leadership team is taking a machine gun to their feet.
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On the other hand, the red flag is a big plus.
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@mailbox_org@[email protected] are running their own mastodon server and it's an excellent mail service provider. @[email protected] are also present on Mastodon and is likewise an excellent mail service provider.
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I was using mainly the emails from proton, I moved to mailbox.
At one point I was planning on moving my drive and VPN with them but their Linux support was really lacking, especially the CLI support so I've never done it and I'm glad I didn't.
For the VPN I'm using Mullvad integrated with tailscale, for the drive in using my own synology NAS and tailscale to connect to it.
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@mok0 @flamingos Thanks for recommending us! We have no plans to leave Mastodon
