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  • That doesn't take lot ressource for communication on both social network.

    • I'll take a guess that they are going back to Reddit so they can control what gets posted and shown to others. They got railed on Mastodon following the drama, which is probably why they're leaving.

    • It depends how they are doing it.

      People learned years ago that there is a big difference between microblogs (twitter), blogs (facebook and tumblr), and message boards (reddit). And there are major differences even within those. The post you make for tumblr and the post you make for facebook are targeting very different audiences. Which IS time consuming for a good community manager and is shitty 100 character blog posts for someone's nephew.

      From checking out their bluesky, it looks like proton is pulling out of all the microblogs in favor of just reddit (https://bsky.app/profile/proton.me). Which sucks but is "fine". And it is likely more that positive engagement on Mastodon was just too low to even be worth multi-posting once every two weeks. Which.. is something a lot of not shitty companies have decided to be the case.

      That said: I didn't check twitter because fuck that shit. If they are still super active there then, yeah, ridiculously "sus".

      • It's kinda weird though. Mastodon can have a pretty high character limit, on par with a reddit comment length.

        The instance my author account is on has it set to a much higher limit. Enough so that I can post a short story in two, maybe three sections.

        If it's the lowest possible character limit that's the problem, they could definitely get around that with damn near zero effort.

        Which is whatever, I get that streamlining social media reduces time costs, I'm more questioning the one they chose in terms of how much upkeep it'll be compared to other options. Reddit is going to have a lot more bullshit to wade through.

      • Thank i didn't see from this perspective. On mastodon the character limit is very small so i didn't understand how difficult it could be as i would do the same communication everywhere to stay consistent.

        In my opinion, they wanted to avoid the backfire from their ceo supporting Trump.

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