drathvedro

At first I was going to say "сука бля, nyet, we have enough shitheads already". But then I realized that they would honestly just fit right in. So you have yourself a deal... as long as you could also find a safe place for Snowden - the dude does not deserve to be in this hellhole.

I think it's possible to have both in a federated system. Let the instance the user is on keep the tally of who upvoted what, and let the instance the post is on to know only the tally from other instances. Should be up to instances whether to show this data to users or not. This way it'd be easy to find and defederate single user instances manipulating votes.

But, on the other hand, I don't see a reason to care about privacy of votes if you can't even delete a post or comment. Fediverse is, by design, not very private, why bother with just this one aspect of it then.

This is indeed correct. No need for LLM's as there are plenty of Russians on lemmy who can just tell. As one myself, I can tell you, it's still mostly business as usual. Kursk incursion sparked less bang than, say, the Orenburg flooding or Krokus shooting. Economically speaking, the inflation is fucking insane, everything jumped about 2X in the last couple of years. Though still somewhat manageable as society is undergoing a major shift where some salaries, particularly those related to military complex have jumped even more than that, while others remained the same, which put many people way below poverty line. There isn't really a deficit in anything, some things, like coca cola, were replaced by locally sourced substitutes, while in other cases, if you've got money, there's always gray imports - e.g. I'm getting my monster cans smuggled from Poland at X4 the usual price. Surprisingly, some good things came out of it, too - I freaking love SBP. Visa and Mastercard can suck a big one. As for coffins on coffins, none of my direct friends or relatives went voluntarily or got drafted. The ones who stayed surprisingly got extremely desensitized of the whole situation, seemingly turning to support the regime, or at least so in public. A couple of relatives of a spouse of a relative went in for the money. As far as I'm aware, both are alive, one is fighting right now, and the other returned, already spent it all, and now considers going back again for a round two. All in all, compared to the state of things before past revolutions, as I read about them, not even Ukraine is at that point yet, much less so for Russia.

What? That's the strategy for threatening people in exile. Those people, he can just torture and imprison right away. But he doesn't need to, he just silenced them. Believe me, as someone who has endure being in Russia and having TV running 24/7 beside me, that none of it is seen on TV, or any publicly accessible websites for that matter.

I would gladly take microusb over those magnetic pogo pins that they put on smartwatches and tablet keyboards, though.

Oh come on now. Think a little. What is hexbear all about? LGBT and Communism. Now, guess which two things Putin heads the most? Do you really think that we have money to fund people LARPing as gay commies, on an isolated instance, in an obscure social network, in a country that's already extremely short on cash because of war? Get your head out the arse.

But, who's the alleged state sponsor? Don't tell me it's Russia, that wouldn't make any sense.

The what now?

https://www.migadu.com/ is a cheap and reliable one. Used YandexMail for years for free before, but they were shameless about reading the contents of emails and then had the audacity to remove the free tier and demand money for it.

I have to wonder what the incentive is to sustain Android development

Cuts from app purchases and in-app purchases. Of course, developers can implement their own payment gateways and distribute their apps in third party stores, but nobody would do this at risk of being removed from play store.

It is already, from both sides. There's massive censorship from the inside, with a killswitch already in place waiting for a moment to actually disconnect Russia from the global internet. As well as sanctions and embargoes from every other site, no matter if they're commercial or not, just because admins couldn't be bothered implementing anything better than blocking the entire Russian IP range.

Fuck you for saying this, though. Don't call to make the lives of anti-war people harder than it already is, you'd just be throwing more fuel into the fire by proving the Russian propaganda to be true.