Proton has stopped using their Mastodon account
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@mok0 @flamingos Thanks for recommending us! We have no plans to leave Mastodon
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Do they really need a team of people to post the same thing to X, Mastodon, BkueSky, etc? I'm honestly surprised they don't have some bot to make all the posts for them to those services. Sounds like a cop out to me.
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You can get a gmail or proton email and just use it like we use phones now...call suppliers, buy shit, etc....just not for family connections. For that we use encryption.
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Totally. People are exaggerating. Proton really is a good service and the only real answer to Google where you have everything under one account.
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I do think the second part of your statement was unnecessary.
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You said
Stating your ethics and then not enforcing them makes the statement pointless.
Explain to me what ethics did they not enforce?
Hint: none.
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Exactly. If they need help maybe someone could create something so they can post to BlueSky, Matrix, Lemmy, and Mastadon at same time soon. Also set it up for the up and coming Flashes and Pixelfed.
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R*edit
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Protón is just a bunch of criptonazis
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They specifically said they don't want to do automated posting, to avoid writing and not interacting with the community. I see no value in them doing this, considering we can get the same content via RSS, blog page or email newsletter.
Presence makes sense if it means presence. If it means a bot reposting content, anybody can do it, but the value is very low. -
In case of proton free means "subsidized by paying users". No big mystery on how they make money.
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Nah, just they are to common and normalize now.
And you normalize them more if you dont like to call them by they name.
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(Re)Posting and not engaging with the community is not free publicity, is bad publicity. They don't have the resources (according to them) do to the latter, and therefore they choose not to do the former.
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I've committed a bunch of relatives and myself to a year of the Family plan, and now most of us want to leave.. What a mess.
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how come?
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Privacy usually doesn't mean following what's popular.
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This comment is a perfect example of why I have written https://loudwhisper.me/blog/proton-fediverse-burnout/
The 88 thing is the complete tip of the iceberg for me. I can't honestly imagine the thought process needed to reach a conclusion that a Taiwanese guy (8 is a lucky number) born in '88 would put that number as a dog-whistle (which is not really part of his own cultural landscape) for Nazis, while dealing with a PR issue.
It's like looking at a crashed car, tire marks on the ground and suggesting it must have been a sharknado and not a car accident.
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One wonders why the rest of the Proton Foundation hasn't stepped in and gotten rid of Andy; I assume it's just because they don't actually care about privacy, they're just cryptonerds.
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It wouldn't be hard to do simultaneous posting. People figured that out ages ago.
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It's not a problem of complexity, it's a deliberate choice of not wanting to do that, because it is synthetic content disconnected from the community.
