Proton has stopped using their Mastodon account
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No. They're a non profit with a specific mission to further the enhancement of provacy. Under Swiss law they're legally obligated to adhere to this. Which means they can't collect user data willy nilly and sell it.
Also, it wouldn't make sense for a non-profit organization to profit from selling user data.
Non-profits make profit all the time. The key difference between a for-profit and a non-profit is that a for-profit company takes that money and gives it to its owners, and a non-profit is legally required to reinvest that money in its organization or missions.
Of course, non-profits can also do shitty things like nepo hires with vastly inflated salaries, throw parties and extravagant galas for "fundraising" and spent almost nothing on the charity aspect.
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Do you have any recommendations for someone who just uses them for email?
Posteo is good. Have been using them for 2 years now.
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Any alternatives for their VPN service with port forwarding?
Airvpn, or Azirevpn if you're ok with few servers
Of those I've only used Azire, and it worked well. I've seen Airvpn recommended often though
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Lmao k bye Proton
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It's a sad day when "you can find us over on Discord" is a better option.
At least reddits getting selfaware enough that every other post is ppl getting mad at ppl telling them to google since those posts are what they find off google, or they've already googled and found nothing.
The immediate assumption that everyone is an idiot who hasnt tried to google is annoying but used to be valid, ppl got lazy there (including me) and would just ask questions that were easily googleable, the issue is those posts are now first on google and none of them have answers lol -
Non-profits make profit all the time. The key difference between a for-profit and a non-profit is that a for-profit company takes that money and gives it to its owners, and a non-profit is legally required to reinvest that money in its organization or missions.
Of course, non-profits can also do shitty things like nepo hires with vastly inflated salaries, throw parties and extravagant galas for "fundraising" and spent almost nothing on the charity aspect.
How about you go read about the foundation before making any judgements.
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A perfectly guided opinion. You do get why the CEO likes Trump and left the fediverse while staying on Twitter, right?
Looking at the board of directors for the proton foundation, I'd say people are jumping to conclusions way too fast about proton.
I don't like that they're ditching Mastodon to focus on reddit. But, it makes sense in a marketing perspective. Reddit has a LOT more users, and potential customers. If they indeed don't have the resources to manage both then Reddit is the best option if they want to attract more people as customers. On Mastodon they're pretty much preaching to the choir.
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Any alternative free VPN's
If you aren't the customer, you are for sure the product. Even then, sometimes you are both.
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Any alternatives for their VPN service with port forwarding?
There are none of them as good as Proton.
For example, AirVPN hasn't had any security audits and doesn't seem too interested in them either due to monetary concerns. That's a deal breaker for me.
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This might sound crazy but this is way worse to me than the CEO simping for orange man. At least for Trump he has a semi plausible excuse.
Reposting stuff on Mastodon or Bluesky barely requires any additional effort. And I cannot think of a good reason to close abandon the free publicity when they already have it set up.
And I’d have thought the potential customers are exactly the Mastodon users.
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How about you go read about the foundation before making any judgements.
I'm well aware of the foundation, and the fact that they have left him on the board with zero consequences or controls.
Stating your ethics and then not enforcing them makes the statement pointless.
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Found the Nazi
You know sucking off CEOs won't make them treat you any better than anyone else right?
Found Godwin
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I'll sometimes agree with stuff Trump does too, like appointing Tulsi Gabbard, but I'm not going to say this means Republicans have become the party of anti war lol
You agree with Trump about something?! How dare you, nazi!
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Pointing people to reddit, as if that's an alternative. When a VPN provider makes such bad choices it's tempting to imagine that the decision was influenced by somebody who wants to secretly get the message out that the company is no longer to be trusted, because it's hard to see any other logic in it.
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There was one (1) post on their r/protonmail, asking why they abandoned Mastodon. That post is gone now... Stay away from Proton lol
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proton fans are bootlickers
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Lmao k bye Proton
I'm searching for a safe and cheap alternative for my own domain, but it's hard! And I don't want to give money to American companies.
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Gross. I’m slowly moving from ProtonMail to Port87, which is kind of embarrassing because I made Port87. Switching email providers is hard though. You have to update everything.
Unless you use a custom domain. That way you only need to update everything once.
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I'm searching for a safe and cheap alternative for my own domain, but it's hard! And I don't want to give money to American companies.
I been using Canadian webhost hosterbox.com for several years. Been very happy with them.
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Any alternative free VPN's
Nothing good is free.
I've been pretty happy with PIA.
