Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton's trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.
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this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
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One shitty CEO can destroy a company the same way one shitty president can destroy a country.
due to limited ressources
Is it that hard to post the same thing on various social media? Maybe it is, I wouldn't know. But that sounds like a shitty excuse.
It looks like they're not up to date on X tho, hopefully they drop that shit. And they're on Bluesky, which, if not Mastodon, is a little bit better I guess.
I really don't get the hidden idea behind leaving Mastodon.
They are still on Bluesky, but they are not active anymore.
Their last post if from 14 days ago, not sure how often they usually post tho
Another L by Proton. Why would they even say it and just stop posting silently.
Even if you agree with Proton's positions it's clear that Andy is just tanking the company's image with such rookie leadership mistakes.
Incredibly incompetence which makes you wonder how competent the actual code running everything is?
every time I hear anything about this shit company, I keep thinking it's valve's linux compatibility thingy and I get real confused about why people are hating on it.
The lesser company needs to change their name or add a descriptor. Proton Woken? Proton SaaS? Proton Supreme? Proton x GOP? Protonaz...
I only use their Drive, I need a privacy focused alternative with a browser version in case I can't convince my family to download an app, any recommendations?
Filen.io is decent. Client is open source and storage is locally encrypted. They claim to use zero knowledge tech on their end.
Additionally, look into rclone to upload and automatically encrypt data to cloud providers. This way, cloud providers can't access your data regardless.
disroot.org maybe
What ashame, I thought the CEO should be poked in the eye with a blunt stick for his Trump support but I would've kept with Proton if the business and his personal views were kept seperate
It appears this is no longer the case, at least proton provides a lot of decent services I don't mind abusing for free now.
Not that they'll care but I bought for two years but will find something else when that runs out.
I was using proton pass but I would like to move on. Is there a good open source password manager that is secure and hosted locally?
Vaultwarden is the opensourced version of Bitwarden. One of the employees of Bitwarden is allowed to maintain it in their own time
Bitwarden premium is crazy cheap anyway. I have proton in limited and still get bitwarden premium.
+1 to Vaultwarden! I've been self-hosting it for the family and it works great.
I use KeePassX. there are android, linux and macos clients. i sync them between devices securely using Mega
keepass plus syncthing works well for me. I sync between linux, android, windows.
Depends on what you mean by "good". I use KeePass. Works for me. Open source and free.
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I'm so disappointed Proton. So sad, but maybe you already live long eniugh to become evil? Time to move on, aah so bad..It was so great piece of software and so great company in this hell capitalist world.
"limited resources" wtf? just copy and paste the content. I guess they didn't like the backslash on Mastodon because of the CEO and Trump bootlicker Andy Yen
This is even more ridiculous given they have a bluesky account and all they need to do is follow the bridge and their content will be ported to mastodon. Literally 5 seconds.
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Honestly I would be fine if they just setup some kind of mirror so their posts would show up across different platforms. The biggest issue with then not using mastodon is just not being informed of what is going on. They don't need to engage with people on mastodon just setup some kind of bridge.
Everyone doing social media posts to multiple networks from a single app. This is a BS excuse from Proton. Very disappointing.
Didn't the CEO of Proton lick the Trump boot recently?
They did, yes.
I'm assuming the next video to be released will be of the Proton CEO and Trump on on some fetish.
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I’m a proton user but I’m out of the loop. Please paste link or give me the tl/dr?
Whoo boy. The Proton CEO posted a deeply troubling remark praising trump and republicans as the champions of the little guy, and lambasted democrats for being in the pocket of big tech. This, understandably, seemed rather... icky to a great many people, who dislike the idea of the service they trust for privacy kissing the ring of the Fascist in Chief/Putin's Towelboy/Elon's Hamberder Carrier. This might have been more palatable if it was made clear that Proton itself does NOT endorse the policies of Melon Husk's puppet administration and the MAGAt Horde, and that the original post was made by the CEO in his capacity as a private citizen, and not as the CEO of Proton.
So when, in the face of backlash from the federated community, Proton decided to just leave the fediverse, rather than clarify its position, but stay on Reddit & the Xitter, using the half-baked excuse of "it's too expensive for us to cross-post on this completely free system", people, understandably, took this to indicate that Proton, previously one of the most trusted privacy companies, may not be as independent as its swiss headquarters leads one to believe.
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On Mastodon, Proton is held to a higher standard. That’s why they left for the dumb masses instead.
I was an apologist for Proton during the whole Andy Yen commentary mess, but this is a really sus choice for Proton to be making.
All that matters under capitalism is growth. I wonder if the thinking here is that Proton has already captured all the geek/privacy enthusiast crowd that it's going to, and Andy Yen's social fuck-up basically killed any future expansion in that space, so this is part of a pivot to new markets and abandonment of areas they know they aren't going to win back.
If so, I'd expect to see Proton making expanded ad buys targeting preppers, libertarians, sov-cit types and other "I'm being watched!!" kooks.
They're focusing on platforms that allow them to censor discussion.
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Yup, no sorry. Only bots left in reddit, have fun!
Looks like I'm leaving Proton. Fucking hell, not even a year ago I migrated from Gmail
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I really dislike these commercial "private" solutions to surveilance issues we have but people always seem to prefer them because of strong marketing around.
I mean, I don't have access to a personal international VPN array. For that kind of service, you pretty much have to get a commercial product.
yet another reason to use mastodon, because they can't control it yet.
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Can you even use Reddit if you’re running Proton’s VPN? I know Reddit has been actively blocking other VPNs (eg Mullvad) for some time.
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