Stolen from @vmstan

More analysis from @wiredfire:

It’s nothing to do with [difficulties in using multiple platforms]. It’s to do with the massive backlash they got on Fedi for their CEO being all Trumpy and somewhat horrible right wing. So they’ve run away because they were made to feel unwelcome on account of us not letting their BS fly.

Original screenshot is of the bio of https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy and wasn’t a post (that confused me for a sec).

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    You know I was like this close to getting proton VPN before this whole thing started. I’ve been researching for like 6 months to decide which one I was going to switch to. They were on the short list. Bullet dodged.

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    1 month ago

    You’d think Fedi would be a good place to be active on from a privacy-conscious user-base perspective, but I think this is the second time they leave Fedi? Either way, I guess being on Reddit allows them to moderate all the naysayers away.

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      1 month ago

      There are a lot of advantages to the fediverse, but privacy really isn’t one of them.

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    1 month ago

    It’s to do with the massive backlash they got on Fedi

    That makes no sense, considering the message in question was posted on Xitter, and the backlash they received was far worse and more public on Reddit, where they are directing their followers to go. It won’t stop anyone from talking about them here.

    • LWD@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      But the backlash on Reddit could be contained!

      • Half of it was on their subreddit, which they have full control over
      • Half of it was on r/privacy, which got removed by a Proton fan.