I did do all that research, none of which changes my opinion that its a bit shit that the only way to import your reading collection is via GoodReads.

To be clear, I’m not saying its a terrible project or even a bad one and I have joined up, I’m simply saying its a bit shit that you can only import from GoodReads. I’m not sure that’s a terribly controversial opinion and its certainly not meant as a slight.

I definitely say read it and me saying its not as good as 1 or 2 is just my opinion :)

Its OK and worth reading just for the sake of completion but its not as good as 2 and nowhere near as good as the first one.

Joined but its a bit shit I can only import from GoodReads.

Problem?

It’s not compulsory to interact with us so I think you’ll be fine. Just block the community if you feel that strongly.

Finally, an Olympics christians can get behind and support.

A few little things rather than one or two big things - email advertised as private but they won’t let you use anonymous addresses (like anonaddy or duck.com) for recovery addresses, an ever growing portfolio of products that seem unfinished or incomplete or lacking in standard features like they’re trying to corner the whole privacy market rather than making one or two products but making them really good, poor customer service and support as a continual theme throughout their existence.

To be clear, I’m not suggesting they’re doing anything dodgy, I just feel that I don’t really trust them. They just make really odd choices and it all feels like a haphazard rush.

You would think that someone at Proton would’ve had the foresight to realise the reputational damage this (along with the LLM announcement) would do to the company.

Without wanting to sound smart after the fact, I’ve been suspicious about Proton for years. I briefly had an email account with them but I could never quite shake the feeling there is something off about the whole company. This move just confirms to me I was correct to be suspicious.

It’s entirely plausible. I’m positive they have the ego and lack of perception for it but I think it’s simpler than that - they’re just stupid.

The video has its sources listed in a Google Doc in the description, but if reading rather than video is more your thing (or you’re not keen on using Google stuff - and I get that) there’s also TempleWatcher’s pages on Greaves and Jarry, the two co-owners of TST.

If an instance has alt front ends they’re usually listed in the sidebar of that instances home page :)

The only other one available on your instance is: https://oldsh.itjust.works/ but you could login to your instance using the alexandrite installation on the project page

I wish there was a way but there’s so much bad stuff and it all kind of interweaves with every other aspect of itself. I could tell you Greaves was a eugenicist who’s made eugenicist, racist, antisemitic, ablist statements in the past but without going through everything else in the video its next to impossible to explain how that impacts on how he operates today.

Neither of them are good people but I don’t want anyone to just take my word for it - the receipts are at that link.

If you decide to not use StickerMule again, as the org I’m part of now has, I’d suggest that rather than simply not using them to login to your SM account, then contact them via their Support interface and ask them to remove your account and all data associated with it or direct them to tell you how you can do it yourself and end by telling them exactly why.

Fair warning: some of it is very disturbing. There’s a lot of quoted racism, antisemitism etc. It’s not an easy watch. If you make it through the whole thing, there’s also some very interesting comments left by current and ex members too.

Milton was a staunch Christian. It was interpretations of Paradise Lost a hundred years or so after it was written by the likes of William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lord Byron and Shelley that were the formation of Romantic Satanism, which in turn inspired the modern atheistic, compassionate Satanism of today.

There are alternatives to TST that are not problematic in the way TST’s leaders are.

Instead of u/username its @username@instancedomain which translates to https://instancedomain/u/username

Instead of r/subname its !communityname@instancedomain which translates to https://instancedomain/c/communityname

Basically, in the body of a post or comment, use the ! or @ format to create a workable link.

I’d been flirting on and off with Lemmy for a year or so, not using it seriously (different username) but then u/spez deciding to sell user data to LLM’s coupled with the general air of permanent aggro in just about every sub led me to finally ditch it. I’ve had to go back a couple of times and every time I did I regretted it. It’s become Twitter level users intertwined with bot armies all flinging shit at each other.