Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton's trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.
Proton is a CIA honeypot episode 978.
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
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Didn't the CEO of Proton lick the Trump boot recently?
Andy is a cuck.
Fucking disgusting
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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At least they are still on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/proton.me
But a true fediverse presence would be better
Bluesky is not much better than X despite it claiming to
It's... better in the sense that you don't have right wing weirdos all over the place. But technically? Organizationally? Feels like we're on track to replay the same exact shit over again. It feels like people just aren't learning the lessons they should from the Twitter takeover.
Then it's not much better :D
Nostr guys (even though that you'll also find right-wing werdos) are building great things. Open source client side algorithmes that you can choose, value4value and more. As of today it's still clunky and people are not used to not having account and managing cryptographic keys so too early, the fediverse is a nice middleground in my opinion.
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I mean, it makes sense for a company to focus on a platform with a large user base. Social media managers aren't free.
I disagree, Proton is a privacy company with more followers on Mastodon than on Threads and TikTok. Should they also drop what Linux support they have to focus only on Windows because it has a large base? This feels alienating to their privacy conscious users if anything.
Yeah, this is what's kinda worrying me about this move. Proton's got a pretty good name with folks who are security conscious. This move feels more like they are kinda trying to pivot, to cash in litterally years of good reputation for something else. That'd suck at the best of times, but in the second Trump era? Really just ain't any good answers to what they might be cashing that in for.
It doesn't make sense when that company is founded on concepts of privacy and they axe the (relatively) private platform instead of the exploitative one full of Nazis and anti-consumerism.
I'm not sure being full of Nazis would be an issue for proton
Setting up some basic bridge functionality is probably not that difficult either, so they could just mirror their xitter posts.
Playing devil's advocate, someone has to moderate replies on the mirrors though.
You can moderate replies?
shrug
lol