We’re consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit
Please tell us that you’re not moving away from Lemmy/Mbin too. There’s a gigantic tonedeafness to asking your supporters to use centralized social media at this specific time that’s hard to accept you’re not realizing.
(quote from Proton’s mastodon.social account info - there wasn’t even a post made about it)
It’s disappointibg that they prefer X, Bluesky and Threads over something like Mastodon.
Don’t they realize that more privacy conscious people, which are their customer base, are more probable to be on the fediverse than Reddit? Especially in the current social media and political context.
All that matters for decisions like this is the quantity of customers (actual or potential).
Yeah and people like us are the most likely to recommend alternatives to Gmail to regular users who likely don’t go out of their way searching for other options.
So it came as a surprise last month when Proton CEO Andy Yen praised the Republican Party in a post on X, declaring that “10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.” When the tweet went viral, Proton’s official Reddit account posted a now-deleted comment stating that “Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.”
No. No they don’t realize that.
And as for Proton, they can get fsckd. For the people that work there, I’m sorry and I hope you can split off and work on a real privacy company that doesn’t slurp fascist knob.
I didn’t think they were ever here?
is either an official account or impersonating an official account.
Seems like it might be official and just joined to tell us they’re totally not worshipping authoritarians
Yeah I agree. Can’t look more official than that.
Lemmy is linked on their site too
AFAIK this is not an official channel. But to be fair, I just checked and I don’t think it says so anywhere.
It is listed in their community page which adds to the confusion.
I checked since I wondered if there was some other place they are active on other than reddit and Twitter, and if they had their own forum.
Oops that’s a bit embarrassing, but I really think the description should include “not an official Proton channel” or something in that case.
After the stunt they pulled, praising Trump and the Republican party, I seriously think Proton is just a wolf in sheep’s clothing. They are like Apple: telling people what they want to hear about privacy, and we all swallowed the pill.
Unfortunately Tutanota, the only other free, privacy aware service, really just locks you in and is thus worse as a choice.
I don’t even know why they care so much about US politics as a swiss company. Just do your business.
Exactly! Just STFU and do your job. Giving people reasons not to pick you is just dumb.
I really don’t understand what’s so hard about this. Most companies post the most basic stuff that it would be trivial to script repeaters for.
