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Wagner chief 'declares war' on Putin after Russia launches missile strike on his troops

Incorrect title, he has declared they're marching (or planning to) march against Shoigu and oust him from the MoD.

In his statement he specifically states that he thinks the MoD has also misled the President. So his argument is that he is he's trying to help Russia and Putin by getting rid of Shoigu.

FSB has declared a criminal investigation on charges of inciting a coup, and Rosguardia has been put on high alert. Medvedev has stated "all necessary precaution measures have started".

Will be interesting to see what happens next.

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Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout

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Honestly we're all adults here and we all know how the Internet works. Best to not feed the trolls and ignore them. The more attention you give the more it gives the appearances that their rhetoric has validity. Just move on and let's all focus on making a better fediverse for all

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Reddit AMA is live

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Not losing much if you get banned, I decided to name-drop Lemmy as well. I encourage everyone to mention it or whatever their favorite fediverse instance is.

It's time for social media to stop being ran by for profit corporations, it's just inevitable for them to ruin shit for the sake of slightly increasing quarterly profits

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Rip Apollo

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Relay dev said the same thing. It's like even if I wanted to use Reddit on mobile, I can't because the main app is literally unusable.

We'll probably see a lot of traffic to Lemmy by then. Hope the servers are ready to handle an influx.

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Why the Federal Reserve’s epic fight against inflation might be over

I feel like the pause on rate hikes is to just avoid spooking the market aka investors. Anyone who works in the industry can tell you investors stomp their feet and cry whenever they don't get what they want, and what they want is antithetical to the health of the market, so the Fed has to try and increase rates at a pace that doesn't cause a complete spook/revolt from the investors. But the market is so leveraged I fear 5% may still not be adequate, and we'll need to be at these rates and higher for a much longer time than the investor class wants to tolerate. Inflation won't go down until there is some semblance of wealth redistribution from the large capital holders to normal market actors imo.

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Christian Selig: I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support

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/r/politics and /r/worldnews are beyond terrible. Just constant propaganda and astro turfing, bots, and just generally brainwashed idiots who take an editorialized headline as fact, and then race to the comments to make a shitty non-constructive joke. And God forbid you try to bring up evidence to counter their arguments, you'll get downvoted to hell if not banned. It really started to become noticable around 2016 after Bernie lost the primaries, and it's only gotten exponentially worse since then.

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Wagner chief 'declares war' on Putin after Russia launches missile strike on his troops

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Rosguardia has hundreds of thousands of internal soldiers. Assuming their allegiance is to the MoD (and at this point there is no way of knowing), I don't see how Prigozhin could successfully stage the ousting.

If he was really trying to help the Ukrainians the most effective decision would probably be to attack the rear of the Russian lines to allow Ukrainian forces to come through. Wagner units have been off the front for about a month so I don't think it really has any effect on Ukraines ability to break through the lines without the above scenario happening, but nothing Prigozhin has said leads me to think he'd help Ukraine, as he also stated he plans to return to the Frontlines to help defend the motherland against the west after ousting Shoigu.

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Redditors brigading against Lemmy

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I'm convinced the general reddit population really are just a bunch of adult babies that have become just docile consumers and sycophants. The fact that people complain about how difficult it is to sign up on lemmy/other fediverse instances shows the level of competency these people work at. If you can't put a modicum of effort into the community you're trying to be a part of, it's probably better you're not here anyways. We don't need 200 million people on lemmy for it to be a fun and interesting place to engage with content on. I'd rather have a smaller (than reddit) userbase, with better content and discussion, than the vast wave of karma farmers posted the lowest effort puns to every single article on world news.

Love Northlane btw.

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Christian Selig: I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support

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I can. This is what companies do. This is why for profit corporations should not run our digital town squares and social media. Even if they're good in the beginning, they will ultimately fall to the monster that is the quarterly profits report. Even if they're profitable, they want to be MORE profitable.

That's why I'm excited about the fediverse, we can finally try to democratize the infrastructure and codebase that we all benefit from, instead of it being closed off and in the hands of the few, who have a different agenda than the normal user.

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What kind of bugs are you guys getting?

I'll be logged in, but when attempting to subscribe to a community or adding a comment, I get an error "login first". I just went back to the account drop-down and reselected my account and am now able to make this comment. I'll often come back to the app and see my account and login info is gone, and I have to re-add them and re-login