Proton has stopped using their Mastodon account
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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.
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"Hide your power level" mask on behavior from the alt right love to play these plausible deniability games while still signally their actual intent. You see it with the "my heart goes out to" or "ik just autisitc" cover for musks nazi salute, or the "he was just waving" Bannon nazi salute. They made a nazi salute, but of course it cant be a nazi salute, wink wink.
I honestly find the 88 to be a faint indicator in this case, but it was a wildly tone deaf one if so coming from some claiming neutrality while steeped in all of the same memetic game playing as the heads of the party.
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For sure a lot of advantages to not having all your eggs in one basket.
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Shows their priorities by not choosing an open platform.
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This really sucks, I like using Proton and now I want to leave... WTF
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The problem is that those arguments are not falsifiable. If not one, but two completely reasonable explanation cannot convince you of someone motivations, nothing can. However, I don't care if Musk did or did not a Nazi salute. His actions speak much louder (in a bad sense) than the aesthetic that he decides to adopt.
Proton donation pattern for example would be a strong indicator to measure intentions.but it was a wildly tone deaf one if so
Maybe. But also maybe people are allowed to have different cultural references, and in a global context (i.e., the internet) we should expect diversity. I - for example - had never heard of this 88 thing, and I would definitely not think about it at all the next time I create a username, and I didn't think it when I went to a barber shop that has that number in the name. Likewise, I wouldn't call anybody writing "Merry Xmas" tone deaf for missing the reference to the X MAS of infamous history (and just recently in the news). For some people it's apparently impossible to see their culture as non-universal (at the cost of sounding stereotypical, folks from US have particularly this problem after decades of cultural hegemony).
for a party that’s steeped in all of the same memetic game playing, you cant ignore the dog whistles
This all happened before Musk/Bannon salute. Just to specify it.
