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We're consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit

Please tell us that you're not moving away from Lemmy/Mbin too. There's a gigantic tonedeafness to asking your supporters to use centralized social media at this specific time that's hard to accept you're not realizing.

(quote from Proton's mastodon.social account info - there wasn't even a post made about it)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

All that matters for decisions like this is the quantity of customers (actual or potential).

[–] cyborganism 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

In that context it makes sense.

I read another comment saying that the Trump tweet thing blew up in their face on Mastodon and they don't have any moderation over who posts what. Unlike Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Remember when Reddit explicitly banned companies from moderating their own subreddits? The original point was that the subs should be for the community, but having a corporate moderator would only serve to suppress public dissent. Reddit eventually pulled a hard 180, and now it’s the expectation that a company moderates their sub.

For instance, if a sub was created for a specific TV show, the TV network wasn’t allowed to moderate it. They could have official accounts, but they wouldn’t be mods. Because if fans didn’t like something in a show, they had the ability to voice those opinions. But now there’s a heavy incentive for corporate mods to keep the company image clean, by scrubbing criticism.

[–] cyborganism 2 points 12 hours ago

Yeah. But hey, Reddit became a profit making machine run by a psychopath. Like every fucking tech company in the U.S. So of course they switched to allow for more income.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

that's a good point, too. they would have that moderation control over an official lemmy community, too. But obviously not on any unofficial communities.