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Proton will no longer post on Mastodon (discuss.privacyguides.net)
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Proton: “We’re consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit for the latest updates”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think I can agree with that. Unfortunately PGP is the only alternative we have for emails (i.e., the client-side tools would still be doing PGP encryption), which is also the reason why it shouldn't be used for really delicate communication. The fact that - whatever setup you use - there will always be metadata showing that person X communicated with person Y alone is a nonstarter for certain types of communication.

Signal would be my recommendation.

[–] DreamlandLividity 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, we should just ditch email for sensitive communications.

Anyway, my point was that I lost trust in Proton back then over this and went to Tuta that has native clients. It makes no difference to my security since I don't think I ever sent or received a single mail that was actually e2e encrypted. But Tuta's more serious approach to e2ee made me slightly more confident in it as a company.

Now it kinda looks like it was the right choice.