Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton's trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.
so the social media manager has time to clean the toilets in the afternoon
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
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I can see a company not wanting to invest resources in a social media platform without critical mass. But for a company that itself is trying to gain critical mass, moving away from a similarly situated privacy focused platform is idiotic. It signals to potential Proton users that the company cannot be trusted and it’s very hard to recover from that.
Anyone know any good vpn alternatives with port forwarding?
AirVPN is a popular choice
I'll second this. While it doesn't have a track record like mullvad, it doesn't have a bad track record so far and I have not had any problems with it since buying.
I believe I'll need to move to mailbox.org with custom domains.
Proton is a CIA honeypot episode 978.
Good bye privacy.
Yeah fuck proton
This is a genuine question : how Proton stopping using Mastodon for communication make them bad ?
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Man. Right when I was about to buy into the ecosystem and get away from google.
[edit]: slightly less worried after reading this: https://lemm.ee/post/55314225
Just another nail in the coffin that hopefully convinces those who thought Proton was maybe still okay after CEO licking Trumps toes.
Your options are mostly Proton, or Tuta. One is located in a country that's part of the 14 Eyes, and who just had an election where the far-right party just won the most amount of votes.
EDIT: THE ABOVE INFORMATION IS WRONG, IN THAT THE AFD CAME IN SECOND PLACE, NOT FIRST.
Uh while i dont disagree completely... most votes is for cdu (riding the strongman train hard these days)- that would be right wing dems by US-standards . Most votes for NSDAP (read:afd) since 1933 however.
You are absolutely right, I looked at the graphic wrong. Thank you for correcting me.
Only thing keeping me from leaving is the low price I'm paying for proton unlimited.
I mean, it makes sense for a company to focus on a platform with a large user base. Social media managers aren't free.
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