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”

  • legolas@fedit.plEnglish
    301·
    17 hours ago

    Whats the problem with creating one message and using the APIs for posting it on all social medai? With optional formatting per platform?

    • loudwhisper@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      2 minutes ago

      They wrote that they don’t want to “write and forget” but engage with people (as they do on Reddit, for better or worse). I think it’s opinable, but it sounds reasonable to me. What is the value of having an official account which just reposts one-way communication already published on the blog and on the newsletter? Anybody can build such a bot, but it’s not “presence” the way I interpret it.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      293·
      17 hours ago

      Because these bridges are one way only.

      They will get spicy replies on niche platforms, not see them until they go viral in a bad way.

      • Goun@lemmy.mlEnglish
        41·
        17 hours ago

        Ohh that’s a fair point! Maybe there’s a way of fixing that by adding some “post your concerns over on reddit” or something similar, but idk.

        • SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          61·
          17 hours ago

          Even so. It’ll be an unmoderated by them section of conversation about their company. Probably a hard pass from any company with an HR department.