I know it’s against what Lemmy wants, but this is what you actually need for a privacy focused service to become mainstream.
Normal people don’t spend all day looking for and setting up miscellaneous FOSS products to do what they need.
They want to pax $X per month to have it all in one place and easy to use.
What do you mean a “single point of failure?”. It’s just becoming an office suite, same as Microsoft or Google. Thats a good thing, it means there will be a user friendly and intuitive privacy respecting alternative to the big tech alternatives.
The only thing I would reasonably worry about is scope creep that comes with managing too many apps at once, but the fact that Proton is just acquiring these tertiary services seems like their strategy for avoiding that problem.
As long as their primary product, the email, remains a focus I’m all for it.
Seeing this statement makes me wonder - would Proton’s ecosystem be considered a juicier target for data, with thinking along the lines of “people adopt proton to have more privacy. Are they more likely to transmit more sensitive data because they think it’s more private?”
