Stolen from @vmstan
More analysis from @wiredfire:
It’s nothing to do with [difficulties in using multiple platforms]. It’s to do with the massive backlash they got on Fedi for their CEO being all Trumpy and somewhat horrible right wing. So they’ve run away because they were made to feel unwelcome on account of us not letting their BS fly.
Original screenshot is of the bio of https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy and wasn’t a post (that confused me for a sec).
Yeah afaik their hands were tied with the Swiss incident. No VPN (or was it mail? it’s been a while, either way) is going to jail for a user.
Not to mention that the data they did actually provide was very minimal. They didn’t have to compromise any of their existing services to provide it.
There wasn’t exactly anything Proton could have done from a technical standpoint to prevent themselves from knowing what they did, without making the service itself nonfunctional.