If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn’t that contradict this principle? I have a proton email account but I don’t want it linked to my standard notes account. I don’t strongly trust companies that offer packaged services like google or Microsoft. I prefer to have one service from one company. I am afraid that now I will have to change where I save my notes. What do you guys think about this?

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn’t that contradict this principle?

    There’s no principle… Standard Notes was never about having an open solution or going against the big co. it was about creating something that could be monetized.

    Let’s see what Proton does with this, but I personally believe they’ll just integrate it in Proton and further close things even more. The current subscription-based model, docker container and whatnot might disappear as well. Proton is a greedy company that doesn’t like interoperability and likes to add features designed in a way to keep people locked their Web UI and applications.

    Standard Notes for self-hosting was already mostly dead due to the obnoxious subscription price, but it is a well designed App with good cross-platform support and I just wish the Joplin guy would take a clue on how to design UIs from them instead of whatever they’re doing now that is ugly and barely usable.

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Proton is a greedy company that doesn’t like interoperability and likes to add features designed in a way to keep people locked their Web UI and applications.

      That’s nonsense. Proton has built everything around PGP and allows uploading public keys for users not using Proton Mail so that you can messaging them with Proton’s PGP system automatically.

      https://proton.me/blog/openpgp-crypto-refresh

      There’s 0 vendor lock in (in the entire Proton ecosystem) and there’s tons of open sourced code.