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Proton has stopped using their Mastodon account (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 days ago by flamingos@feddit.uk to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 162 points 2 days ago

This might sound crazy but this is way worse to me than the CEO simping for orange man. At least for Trump he has a semi plausible excuse.

Reposting stuff on Mastodon or Bluesky barely requires any additional effort. And I cannot think of a good reason to close abandon the free publicity when they already have it set up.

[-] balder1991@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And I’d have thought the potential customers segment are exactly the Mastodon users.

[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yea this is worse. The politics thing could be brushed off as Andy Yen being uneducated on American politics. Moving away from an already established fediverse platform is contradictory to Proton's mission. It doesn't take more than a minute to copy paste their xitter posts to Mastadon.

[-] loudwhisper@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

(Re)Posting and not engaging with the community is not free publicity, is bad publicity. They don't have the resources (according to them) do to the latter, and therefore they choose not to do the former.

[-] kat@orbi.camp 1 points 1 day ago

Shows their priorities by not choosing an open platform.

[-] loudwhisper@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Sure, it does. Which depending on what their goal is, may be perfectly fine.

They have always been actively almost exclusively on reddit (where they engage) anyway, they will keep doing so I assume.

[-] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I think the reason is that every time they post something, someone there points out the Andy Yen thing. Thats basically the only comments. So its detrimental to their business.