Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton’s trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.
One shitty CEO can destroy a company the same way one shitty president can destroy a country.
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.
The lesser company needs to change their name or add a descriptor. Proton Woken? Proton SaaS? Proton Supreme? Proton x GOP? Protonaz…
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.
This ain’t a fucking airport
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?
keepass plus syncthing works well for me. I sync between linux, android, windows.
I use KeePassX. there are android, linux and macos clients. i sync them between devices securely using Mega
Vaultwarden is the opensourced version of Bitwarden. One of the employees of Bitwarden is allowed to maintain it in their own time
Bitwarden premium is crazy cheap anyway. I have proton in limited and still get bitwarden premium.
+1 to Vaultwarden! I’ve been self-hosting it for the family and it works great.
Depends on what you mean by “good”. I use KeePass. Works for me. Open source and free.
Same. You can sync your database however you want so it’s totally under your control.
I really dislike these commercial “private” solutions to surveilance issues we have but people always seem to prefer them because of strong marketing around.
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.
Everyone doing social media posts to multiple networks from a single app. This is a BS excuse from Proton. Very disappointing.
Yup, no sorry. Only bots left in reddit, have fun!
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.
No the reason is they are pro-nazi
yet another reason to use mastodon, because they can’t control it yet.
What do you mean?
They moderate their own subreddit and can censor things. There has been some drama about them deleting some posts and stuff, and in general, them moderating their subreddit makes it so that you’re less likely to express what you really feel
I believe
Thanks for the explanation
Can you even use Reddit if you’re running Proton’s VPN? I know Reddit has been actively blocking other VPNs (eg Mullvad) for some time.
I was wondering the same
Yes they have a stealth feature that is helpful for detecting a VPN
“limited resources” wtf? just copy and paste the content. I guess they didn’t like the backslash on Mastodon because of the CEO and Trump bootlicker Andy Yen
This is even more ridiculous given they have a bluesky account and all they need to do is follow the bridge and their content will be ported to mastodon. Literally 5 seconds.
Oh yeah that’s prob it. On Reddit they can delete any negative comments
Same on Bluesky actually. They can hide comments they don’t like in response to their posts.
Welp. Guess I’m never using that bluesky account I created to pad their growth metrics.
Yeah not even copy paste, this has been easily automatable for years.
It’s the age of stinginess
Looks like I’m leaving Proton. Fucking hell, not even a year ago I migrated from Gmail
Learn your lesson and switch to a custom domain :) that way you will never have to change all your services’ email addresses anymore, when you want to switch mail provider.
Yeah, this is gonna be my next move I think. I was using Proton VPN for a while and just recently started migrating my emails there, then they started doing all of this.
I wanted to self host my email anyway, but now I have no excuse. I’ve been burned by the last team I expected it to come from, I’ll be self-reliant now
That’s what I’m leaning towards. Now to think of a domain that’s easy enough I can tell my email over the phone of needed
SAME! I only just finished getting all my servers and custom domain set up, and I already have to look for a new provider.
If someone has any recommendations for a good hosted email, VPN and online storage provider let us know. It seems there’s not many good options left.
Me too. Same predicament. I was a paid user of Proton.
Just got moved over to paid Tuta, and it seemed to go smoothly.
I was an apologist for Proton during the whole Andy Yen commentary mess, but this is a really sus choice for Proton to be making.
All that matters under capitalism is growth. I wonder if the thinking here is that Proton has already captured all the geek/privacy enthusiast crowd that it’s going to, and Andy Yen’s social fuck-up basically killed any future expansion in that space, so this is part of a pivot to new markets and abandonment of areas they know they aren’t going to win back.
If so, I’d expect to see Proton making expanded ad buys targeting preppers, libertarians, sov-cit types and other “I’m being watched!!” kooks.
They’re focusing on platforms that allow them to censor discussion.
Same. I’ll be shopping around for something else when my sub comes up.
Makes me glad that I procrastinated on switching over, I guess I’ll just ride out my current NordVPN subscription and switch over to Mullvad?
Almost makes me afraid to ask the community, what exactly is wrong with Nord? 😅
They’ve done other things, but the reason I don’t use Nord is that they had a breach where an attacker had physical access to one of their servers, and they tried to sweep it under the rug rather than notify users.
Fair cop; I guess there’s always risks in renting space in a data centre (physical intrusion), and that response definitely isn’t the best.
Not enough for me to be a deal breaker currently, but will definitely switch when my plan expires.
Unless you never want to torrent, I would say to not use mullvad, you can’t forward a port with them (same with NordVPN). There are plenty of VPNs that don’t log and allow port forwarding. I use AirVPN.
I’ve not encountered any issues filling up my NAS with torrented Linux ISOs via NordVPN?
My priority for a VPN has just been no logging and the ability to ‘travel’ internationally… so if there the case, no need to rush out and switch then?
https://lemm.ee/post/56692320/18526252
A connection has to be established. That is only possible if one side has an open port.
So you can basically not connect to other people with closed ports, which reduces your available pool of people to connect to.
As long as there are enough people with open ports for you, you and the torrent ecosystem will be fine. But when nobody or very few people have open ports, torrenting simply doesn’t work.
Yeah, speeds are far greater with port forwarding. But, if you’re not in a hurry, I suppose it’s nbd
