Proton: “We’re consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit for the latest updates: Reddit - Dive into anything”. This is unexpected, as they had around 50k subscribers on Mastodon, and mirroring posts is super easy. I find that concerning that they stopped posting on open and decentralized platform, but keep posting on Meta and X.

Proton: “We’re consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit for the latest updates”

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Yeah. At best, it is clueless.

    I think it’s maybe possible that they have a thriving community on Reddit, and not much interaction with people on Mastodon, and they can’t afford to invest the time to pay someone to maintain both, and so some middle-manager who’s not exactly a tech and privacy expert decided to go with the more active one.

    You’re completely right though. Even in that super-charitable fantasy scenario, it would have been better to shutter the Reddit community, explain to the thriving community why they would be better served by a different platform, and keep going on Mastodon even if it’s something like 5 people.