Post #1910077
2026-05-03 06:57 UTC
@happy @Retreival9096 My two cents is that it was not just one single article but overall trends too, response to that, etc
Personally I've been rather uneasy with overzealous feeling usage of "Big Tech", especially as afaik that particular phrase was mostly used among conservative people for a while until it suddenly became mainstream, and they did use it before that it feels. Though don't have any citation, statistics, or articles chewing out things line by line whenever something can be interpreted in different way :P
Overall I'm.. skeptical of the service Proton provides and feel it slightly pushes out focus on more open and people controlled alternative solutions
... Key management is hard though, and most alternatives kinda suck at it. Or at UX. Or ability to install it without an equivalent of a degree. Or use it without an equivalent of a degree
It does have its use, I can't deny that, but people should be aware more of what it does rather than what they think it does (thanks to marketing)
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@happy@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-05-03 08:29
@saphire @Retreival9096 Broadly speaking good & valid points particularly regarding the value of Open alternatives (which I do value) and do think Proton seems at risk of trying to do too much and losing focus on it's core product however … continued in the next post