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 (https://bsky.app/profile/proton.me). 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.

That said: I didn't check twitter because fuck that shit. If they are still super active there then, yeah, ridiculously "sus".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Thank i didn't see 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 everywhere to stay consistent.

In my opinion, they wanted to avoid the backfire from their ceo supporting Trump.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

You're welcome to believe whatever makes you happy in this post truth hellscape we live in.

But reddit (generally left on drugs, center-right on social issues) tears into them pretty regularly for that. Bluesky seems to be left-center-left-ish and is also a place where people can tear into the account. And while there are much better moderation tools on both platforms, that still doesn't protect them for the equivalent of a trending hashtag or /all post.

We can only speculate but considering plenty of people have criticized the mastodon community over the past year or so (Alec from Technology Connections being a great example where, if anything, he should be our patron saint rather than the guy who gets harassed any time his posts get surfaced by The Algorithm) AND basically the entire "internet" decided on bluesky... it likely really is just cost cutting and not caring enough to monitor the mastodon account.

Also, it looks like they have a Threads account anyway? https://www.threads.net/@protonprivacy. Which means that the Mastodon users can still follow them? I forgot what the status on federation with facebook ended up being.

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