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What happened to proton?
Their Swiss CEO decided that supporting an authoritarian American neo nazi regime was a good idea
And they decided that posting on Mastodon was bad so switched back to r*****.
How very neutral of him.
There is that, but did anything happen to the service itself?
If you're on Proton to be privacy-oriented and stop governments or corporations from accessing your data, do you really trust the company when their CEO is cozying up to an authoritarian regime? I just don't see Proton fighting any information requests from Trump right now, and just from a utilitarian perspective that makes them a bad choice for me as a user.
Personally, I feel like their service, except for VPN, was always half assed.
- No access to SMTP for automation
- Need to use that shitty bridge to use a useful client
- No pgp encryption in their web interface when talking to people not at proton
- proton drive does not offer any useful protocol like ftp, webdav, or sftp
- Calendar and Contacts cannot be easily synchronized to phone and desktop apps
The list goes on. I have only one account left with a proton email and the letter with a code so I can change that lies on my desk.
They definitely allow you to use pgp with people not at proton via the web ui.
There is no way to have a secure or private SMTP service.
Good point. I actually quit proton a few years ago because of the lack of SMTP and caldav.
He's not Swiss, he's from Taiwan
The creator is pro-Trump and they also recently stopped posting updates to Mastodon citing "they don't have the resources" for it, or something like that.
Correct me if I have missed something; I've got no skin in the game, I just see the drama a lot.
So weird these business guys get involved into political crap. It's gotta alienate one side or another, simply lose lose.
Found this the other day, and it sorta makes me agree that this is getting a little blown up
And the top comment explains why it indeed is such s big issue. This is incomprehensibly incompetent.
There are few more services you need to be able to trust beyond your mail and VPN. If you have still trust then that's ok, don't get me wrong - but stating "just because the CEO spewed s bit of pro trump shit this got blown out of proportion" doesn't acknowledge the propositions at all.
Andy Yen, who probably doesn't keep up with U.S. news outside what he needs to for his company's business needs, said an egghead thing.
Unless he said something else everyone is blowing this out of proportion.
said an egghead thing
The dumbification really does seem to permeate everything everywhere, doesn't it. Imagine circlejerking antiintellectual regime taking points on lemmy.
Okay, "fucking dumbshit" then. Stop treating it like Proton is supporting trump somehow
Well, "everyone" being radicals online who think that everything is some sort of call to war. Normal people realize what it is. There are sprinkles of sane people here on Lemmy, but they're drowned out by the crazies.
QED
Encountered someone from local instances in the wild.
Nothing. The CEO dared to congrat someone (Trump) that other people (including myself) heavily dislike from the wrong account. So, tolerant and rational people want to cancel him and his company.
I'm sorry but what possible positive can you find in Proton doing that?
In what universe does his kissing the feet of that dicator equate to us keeping our lives private?
Whatever, guys. I don't care about Proton, I don't care about it's CEO, I don't care about Trump (quite the opposite, actually). Be enraged on every little shit and don't forget to ask even the grocery guy about his political preference. Maybe you're giving money to someone supporting Trump or his local equivalent. The internet and its virtue signaling is becoming increasingly annoying these days.
No one asked. Bro blurted it out off the official account and people are understandably concerned
Concerned of what, exactly? Jeez, people really love drama.
Someone doesn't know how to read writing on walls I see.
Someone else love useless drama.
