I‘ve been quite tolerant sine now, but this goes to far to leave a mostly left platform.
Does anyone know if its possible to leave Proton and get my money back, as Im in a plan for a couple of months.
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Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton's trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.
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 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.
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Meh
I’m a proton user but I’m out of the loop. Please paste link or give me the tl/dr?
Honest, stupid question: Why exactly is this such a big deal to so many of you? (I don't use Mastodon.)
This is a genuine question : how Proton stopping using Mastodon for communication make them bad ?
I mean, it makes sense for a company to focus on a platform with a large user base. Social media managers aren't free.
I wish VPS providers didn't commonly block email ports. Self hosting seems like the only way to stay in control
It's understandable though, they just don't want to deal with email spammers.
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? 😅
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I've been giving them the benefit of the doubt, but I'm kinda done with them. Anyone have any suggestions for a mail provider? I'm not yet willing to self-host that.
I've been happy with mailbox.org. I left proton after the boot licking. I had been a paying customer for years.
But are they on Mastodon? This is a very important factor for my purchasing decision.
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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?
I use KeePassX. there are android, linux and macos clients. i sync them between devices securely using Mega
KeePassXC is the maintained version, so use that instead.
At least they are still on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/proton.me
But a true fediverse presence would be better
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Funny how they didn’t make actual post on Mastodon, but just silently edited their profile to say they left Mastodon? That’s pretty cowardly.
Yet another reason to not like Proton.
Ugh, I use proton for VPN and email. Any suggestions for decent VPN at this point?
I don't have any complaints with Nord but other people seem to.
Nord has no port forwarding. No deal
AirVPN is great, allows port forwarding, 5 devices, and they run very good black Friday specials every year if you decide to buy it after trialling.
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I really dislike these commercial "private" solutions to surveilance issues we have but people always seem to prefer them because of strong marketing around.
I mean, I don't have access to a personal international VPN array. For that kind of service, you pretty much have to get a commercial product.
Yeah fuck proton