Reposting stuff on Mastodon or Bluesky barely requires any additional effort. And I cannot think of a good reason to close abandon the free publicity when they already have it set up.

[–] loudwhisper@infosec.pub 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

(Re)Posting and not engaging with the community is not free publicity, is bad publicity. They don't have the resources (according to them) do to the latter, and therefore they choose not to do the former.

[–] kat@orbi.camp 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Shows their priorities by not choosing an open platform.

[–] loudwhisper@infosec.pub 1 points 5 hours ago

Sure, it does. Which depending on what their goal is, may be perfectly fine.

They have always been actively almost exclusively on reddit (where they engage) anyway, they will keep doing so I assume.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yea this is worse. The politics thing could be brushed off as Andy Yen being uneducated on American politics. Moving away from an already established fediverse platform is contradictory to Proton's mission. It doesn't take more than a minute to copy paste their xitter posts to Mastadon.

[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And I’d have thought the potential customers segment are exactly the Mastodon users.

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I think the reason is that every time they post something, someone there points out the Andy Yen thing. Thats basically the only comments. So its detrimental to their business.

[–] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 points 4 hours ago

This is most likely what is the issue and they are never going to be able to fix this on a platform like that

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

They have tools that let you cross-post effortlessly, so that’s strange.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 12 points 1 day ago

Red flag... Do they tools to migrate ?