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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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    Who is the target audience for this?

    People who use Proton are privacy-conscious and mostly (I would argue) tech literate, and yet they shove spicy autocomplete that no one ever needed until two years ago and most people donā€™t want now because it produces complete horseshit, and spellchecking that every browser under then sun has built in by now.

    And then they quietly say you need to use Chromium, so the people who use anything but (like, I donā€™t know, the majority of privacy-conscious folks who should be their main user base, lol) have their e2e broken?

    I really hope they catch a raging firestorm for this.

    (Also Iā€™m really pissed right now because used to recommend them to people and now feel like a total jackass for doing that.)

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      (Also Iā€™m really pissed right now because used to recommend them to people and now feel like a total jackass for doing that.)

      donā€™t feel bad for making the best choice you could with the information of the past. until we get a workable, interoperable, federated, encrypted communication/online services platform, the choice was to recommend one of the centralized e2e providers. we both chose to recommend Proton and they did this shit, but it could have just as easily been tutanota.

      now my brainā€™s going ā€œe2e encrypted federated email but it preferably uses activitypub as a transport and classic email as a fallback, is that anythingā€

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        yep! thatā€™s the game theyā€™re playing. I really donā€™t give a fuck about Protonā€™s relatively tiny number of enterprise whales, but they make Proton a shitload of money in the short term.

        the depressing part is, historically, online services that remain uncompromisingly user-focused tend to stick around roughly forever, while the ones that chase short-term gains and compromise everything else almost always enshittify and fizzle out pretty quick.