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”

  • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    4 hours ago

    Privacy isn’t particularly good in the fediverse. Any federated instance can track you as much as they want without you ever knowing or consenting.

    Self hosting Lemmy is straightforward. Then subscribe to all communities and now you have a treasure trove of data to mine. If you modify the code a bit you can do more like keep deleted posts around or surveil user activities in real time.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      42 minutes ago

      That’s not what privacy means. Mastodon is incredibly transparent that everything you do publicly is public - the threat model is very clear here.

      Also you can’t compare public tool used for tool interactions to a suite of private tools that is Proton or any other service.

      Finally if all of the data is available public for anyone to access this means it’s not exclusive to bad actors like ad machines, government spies etc.

    • azalty@jlai.luEnglish
      1·
      52 minutes ago

      Sure, but at least the fediverse doesn’t try to fill your browser of ads and tracking cookies