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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 42 minutes ago

This ain't a fucking airport

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I understand. Why use resources on a platform that is so badly designed for new users that isn't used but to post manga and linux memes from tech nerds? If this is your reason to drop Proton then you're priorities seem a bit off imho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 51 minutes ago

No the reason is they are pro-nazi

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

The lesser company needs to change their name or add a descriptor. Proton Woken? Proton SaaS? Proton Supreme? Proton x GOP? Protonaz...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

keepass plus syncthing works well for me. I sync between linux, android, windows.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

I use KeePassX. there are android, linux and macos clients. i sync them between devices securely using Mega

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Vaultwarden is the opensourced version of Bitwarden. One of the employees of Bitwarden is allowed to maintain it in their own time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Bitwarden premium is crazy cheap anyway. I have proton in limited and still get bitwarden premium.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

+1 to Vaultwarden! I've been self-hosting it for the family and it works great.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Depends on what you mean by "good". I use KeePass. Works for me. Open source and free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Same. You can sync your database however you want so it's totally under your control.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

I really dislike these commercial "private" solutions to surveilance issues we have but people always seem to prefer them because of strong marketing around.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

Sad news :-/

At least we have [email protected] but they're not on it I believe

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Everyone doing social media posts to multiple networks from a single app. This is a BS excuse from Proton. Very disappointing.

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