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Proton announces widespread outages (x.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Grapho@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Apologies for linking to Xitter, xcancel has been shut down. Proton Mail seems to be completely offline everywhere.

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[–] oh_@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

For future, they have a real status page: https://status.proton.me/

[–] nigel@piefed.social 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think we need to ask them to not (only) use X for support posts. They have every other platform for their marketing.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 6 points 2 days ago

Did they not toot this on mastodon or put it on their status outage site?

[+] lambisio@feddit.cl -21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They can't use other platforms because those are not Nazi enough to their liking, as we saw with the "retirement" after the response they got after their support for Trump.

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

[...] their support for Trump.

That was one guy (their CEO) expressing his personal support for one thing Trump did. Proton released a statement claiming that their company as a whole does not support any political stance or affiliation.

Proton haters (and anti-privacy groups) blew it up into a whole ordeal to try and discredit Proton as a service. But it was literally just one dude being an out-of-touch idiot on his own personal account.

I'm not saying Proton is perfect, but it's one of the better privacy services out there today, so of course governments, politicians, and anti-privacy organizations are looking to tear them down. They don't want true privacy; they need the illusion of privacy, while maintaining their back doors into everyone's business.

[–] lambisio@feddit.cl -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know qhat bot farm you get that many upvotes from but you really need to do more research.

That was one guy (their CEO) expressing his personal support for one thing Trump did. Proton released a statement claiming that their company as a whole does not support any political stance or affiliation.

The first part was a statement that was backed by the board (this after the CEO guy doubled down on supporting Trump when questioned).

The second part almost merits no explainer: saying you are "neutral" on politics is the same as saying you favour those why already have the power - the oligarchs and those who maintain the status quo.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

maybe some people just don't give a fuck about what CEOs of the companies they consume products of tweet in their personal accounts? All this drama is a nothingburger to me and a complete waste of time.

[–] lambisio@feddit.cl -3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Presumably bots and right-wings don't give a fuck, because they know they have the advantage on that one. And other people who are apathetic to the issue deserve what they get. The problem is that this does not function as social darwinism, so their idiocy drags the rest of us down with them.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

We all pick our battles. I have dozens of things more relevant to be worried about. If you think it's bad that part of the society doesn't really care about what a CEO is tweeting, maybe you have a really good life, or maybe you're going to burn out soon.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And don't forget about right wing bots!

[–] lambisio@feddit.cl -1 points 1 day ago

Of course not, how could I~?

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sorry, it's my fault. I'm in the process of leaving Google and just linked my Gmail to Proton today.

[–] Grilipper54@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Typical Dan behavior lol

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Right? Jeez, Dan, could you just not?

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Dammit dan.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

https://twitterwebviewer.com/?tweet=2092738429155000663

https://status.proton.me/

[–] technobyte@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

There are also some working Nitter instances:

https://nitter.kareem.one/protonsupport

https://nitter.miningtcup.me/protonsupport

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks, I didn't know about Twitter Web Viewer. Found a userscript that auto-redirects X posts to it. Ironically it says in the description that the script was made using Grok 😭

[–] doctorbirb@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

them coming back was extremely quick, faster than i expected after a global outage

[–] superbetter@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

proton mail is finally back for me, the VPN too. that's about as much as I'm comfy leaving in their hands, gotta diversify your eggs and baskets~

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

If you want a different email service, may I suggest https://port87.com/

[–] trevdog@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

oh now I see why I was having trouble signing up for a new service. never got the confirmation email, until a couple minutes ago

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

oof, best of luck to the support team

edit: a fix is out, most services recovered for most users

[–] Monkey@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

They're back. status.proton.me

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Crazy, my phone is on vpn kill switch at all times and I didn't notice it today. Probably happened when I wasn't using my phone

[–] ItWasTheDNS@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I guess these issues may have had something to do with the 4-5 unsolicited password reset code emails I received in my other (non proton) email account