Me home from work and prepping early for my weekend livestreams: Hey this 6-year-old screenshot I took from Night in the Woods seems fitting for a Friday.
I'm just adding to my pile of frustrations with the guy leading Proton. I suppose you could give his choice of username on Reddit the benefit of the doubt by saying it's related to his birth year. I'm giving it the side eye, as he could have gone with literally anything else.
Now I'm personally reconsidering even leaving my specialized email there. Might be time to migrate and delete my account as soon as I can.
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I'm doubtful Gail Slater will have anywhere near the ferocity of Lina Khan. Doubly so, since Trump is hellbent on appointing loyalists, and has big tech is scrambling to be all in with him for his second term. I mean, look at Meta's hard turn.
As long as heads of tech companies are willing to praise Trump and/or line his pockets, they'll likely not be investigated. Thus, I think this is the real reason for Yen's unneeded statement yesterday.
@Catwoman69y2k Yeah. While I'm glad a statement is out there, it pretty much is a gaslighting statement. I think the only lesson learned was Yen shouldn't be running around expressing his personal opinion on the company account-- not the actual concerns people are bringing up. 😩
Even after this, I'm not going to give Proton a dime-- and I was a paying customer for about a year. I'm going to look elsewhere for a new VPN, even if I keep my one email address with them-- the bulk of my email goes through Tuta anyway.
I'm just shaking my head at Yen's statement about JD Vance supporting Lina Khan-- therefore the GOP is good for anti-trust. Did I miss some reality where Khan is not being replaced by Andrew Ferguson? 🤨
Looks like Proton is in full damage control mode on Reddit after their CEO showed his ass yesterday. The comments they made on Mastodon and Bluesky have been deleted. I guess a lot of us cancelled our subscriptions.
There was a new statement from Yen put out on Reddit. It could have been better, though it was needed. Still, I'm going to side eye Proton forever because that trust has been broken by Yen putting his entire foot in his mouth.
So, so typical of the fediverse that an open source, non-corporate platform like pixelfed (and/or loops) is getting increasing amounts of attention while reports of the head of the project consistently and loudly being an antiblack weirdo are ignored 🙄
@jccpalmer And I'm certainly not telling what to do with your own email. It's not my business. I'm just voicing my concern, my own plans, and the source of those concerns.
I definitely have a problem with Yen's statements, and have given the benefit of the doubt to statements like them from others only to see my fears and worse play out.
@jakalopes Even if the organization clarifies its stance, I'll never fully trust them again. Just because a fascist makes a good point about something, there's no need to praise them unless you're brown nosing.
@jccpalmer I've read the comment and the update and I'm still skeptical of the praise of individuals fully in bed with fascists. Just because they make a few good points. There is a measure of seeing what one does versus what they say, and how the rest of the organization feels.
Proton Mail isn't my sole email address, and I held off on going all in because I didn't want all my digital eggs in one basket. I cancelled my VPN Plus plan, as I don't feel comfortable giving the money at the moment.
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