Then advertise and market lemmy. Not by literally going on the street with cart boards “use lemmy Plox”, like even sending a link from Lemmy makes Someone question “why everybody is into Lemmy lately? What is it?

That’s how I found out about Reddit anyways. Don’t underestimate word of mouth.

Quantity is going to rise because now everybody will drink alcohol instead of water. like back In 1800’s

Threads is not a direct threat to Lemmy and never will be. Neither Fedverse. The whole point is that it’s like in the old days, decentralized. You don’t like one server? You go to another. Or you make your own. And big communities will always exist that will want to fuck with whoever opposes basic standards. Just like what happened with Spez/Reddit

I'm thinking it could even be "partizans". It could be anybody really.

As Carl Sagan once said "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" (ECREE).

So truth is, at the end of the day we do not who 100% committed this.

But I'm honestly happy Moscovians, the "privilleged", get a taste of their own medicine and propaganda in their mouth. I'm not happy that people getting killed, I'm happy that people who support war, finally taste their own medicine.

War is ugly, war is hell, and if you start it, and you agree with it, better get a taste of it.

I dont care this prorogative Moscovians and Russians have that "we're scared of your government jailing us", it's better than thousands of Ukrainians losing their land, getting raped, committing crimes against them and against the world, killing innocent Ukrainians and innocent citizens, babies and children. Your government is literally just a couple of people. 100 of them? 1000 of them? You're millions. Get a brain.

If you dont have the courage to protest against your own country committing attrocities with your own men, then you better get a taste of your own medicine and I dont give a single fuck about it. I'm honestly happy they finally get to taste just a tiny tiny bit war's flavor.

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And if it's partizans, good for them. They understand the way.

I love signal, but they have to step up their game. Telegram is a hundred times more fun to use and I hate that my mom and close circle uses it and I hate to say that I don’t wanna use Signal coz it’s a pain to us in comparison with other messengers like Telegram.

Please Signal, instead of doing features like “pay through signal” do something that is actually useful now instead or fun. Who wanted to pay through signal in the first place. Maybe a small audience but is that small audience your target group!?

I love signal for keeping up to their own standards of keeping privacy (until somebody else steps up as a CEO Ehe. Fuck spez). But their overall User Experience sucks compared to other apps.

I dont know what you say, I transitioned to Lemmy 100% and deleted my acc at reddit.

The only super annoying thing is that they get to keep the cake whole and the dog full (my comments by deleting my name and my acc deleted). Which I despite them for that even more now and just make me avoid the platform even more and dis-advertise it.

I would be fully happy if I had my account, changed my comments first to "fuck /u/spez" and then had deleted my account, but I only knew so much. I was naive enough to think they would delete my comments too, since they're My Intellectual Property. Right? They came from my own mind, I took the time to write them, and I deleted them! But no! We will keep them, just delete your name.

And when you google my reddit username, you still get from the google's cache directed to threads with my deleted comments. Fuck you spez. Fuck you.

Time will tell if reddit won. It's not a short-term fight. I deleted my discord a Chinese Tencent's vessel and a product that makes no money but burns money for the sake of gathering data. My Instagram, my Meta account thus my FB too, my WhatsApp, every app that was there just to gather my data or exploit me now or in the future.

I do everything to keep off being fingerprinted. I use platforms that use more and more end-to-end encryption like Matrix. Or at worst Telegram which is not end to end but the best of the worst since my relatives still use it.

Just because you don't see it yet, doesn't mean that a movement against anti-consumer platforms like reddit don't exist. I inform my mom about it, I inform my relatives and friends about it. I move friends and friends move me to safer for the future to use platforms and de-centralized.

A battle may be short, but the war is long.

«Мамочкааааааа»

Да?

Сейчас Розумієш што ета Война??

Now do you understand suddenly what war is? What democracy is? When to invade other peoples countries?

always appreciate a guy who draws a penis on horses

Yep. Especially after the training it’s like “yeah man I did it”.

Also, it’s all about consistency. Perfectionism is the enemy of consistency. Don’t be a perfectionist. Just be consistent and soon you’ll see results.

Like I see some people who just started working out and do as many push-ups or any other excercise with as many reps as they possibly can and after they’re exhausted.

That’s wrong. These people think that if you don’t do 100 pushups first day you’re a failure.

No, do even one push up. It’s more that 0. Then do 2, then 5, then 10, then 5 again coz you don’t feel like it today.

Like don’t starve for perfectionism. Just be consistent and you’ll actually get to enjoy working out. It’s a great way to clear your mind, have a healthy body, build muscles, better body chemistry and less diseases etc. Be consistent, not perfect. And avoid guys who make you feel you’re not doing enough. These guys will make you feel like every exercise should be perfect or with the highest reps possible or smth.

Ouch! This looks painful. But Eh ... I dont care what they say, they decided to go there and die there, instead of pissing on their commander, dying for democracy instead and going anywhere else but in Ukraine to kill Ukrainians.

South Korea is closely looking at your thread probably trying to figure out if there’s another way 🥲

Conscripted = Defend your country. Not attack another country. Russia just pretends they're "defending motherland" so they find an excuse to """"conscript (untrained) Russians"""" to go to war and they advertise "it's good money" literally everywhere. There are posters everywhere about it and so much propaganda and pro-war ads.

In any case, there is ALWAYS a choice. Even killing your own commander, or protesting against your government is a choice. So many Russians have literally abandoned their positions because they do not believe in this war. That was a choice. You always have a choice. Especially them, so many of them. Yes, difficult ones, but let's not pretend that they "do not have a choice". They do, they always did.

You always have a choice, than go to a war where you win nothing but kill innocent Ukrainians, committing war crimes and invading other country "to defend yours" which is their propaganda prorogative.

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You know who "doesn't have a choice"? Ukrainians. They are there to defend their land. And the funny thing is, they do have a choice. They could just say "fuck it I won't do it". But they still stand. Even they, have a choice. And they chose to defend their land.

So let's not pretent that Russians, got conscripted thus they didn't have a choice. Everybody has a choice, and they have to live with it and die with it.

To be honest, if I was Putin, I would have killed myself at that point. He has no reason to exist for the future. Just pure suffering and humiliation.

But somehow ofc he will turn this into a "it's NATO's fault" or another narrative to turn the hate elsewhere for average ZRussian copium

Oh yeah. Wait we had a Lemmy place here?? Bruh, I didn’t even know about it sorry.

Yep, let them enjoy their own medicine. If they want war, let them taste war.

They already encouraged it by letting Putin and his pawns motivate propaganda, pro-war posters and pro-war ads everywhere and their own useful men dying. The prorogative about "but but I would get jailed", yes, and the other alternative is to let your husband die at war and kill innocent ukrainians ya? Sure, enjoy the flavor of your own medicine. And this was just a tiny bit.

War is hell. Please, let's support Ukraine after the war. It's a literal warcrime, not one but many, what Russia as a nation has done to Ukraine just over some land that it doesn't own. From stealing children, to fake elections and votes, to literally killing civilians in random areas.

I dont know if I can promise, I dont like promises, I like actions. But I would like to think of myself making actions in Ukraine that would help people there to rebuild their cities, their civilization again and get away from fucking Russian state.

I dont hate Russians. I dont have hatred towards people. I have hate towards state of minds. Hate towards propaganda. I'm sure people fighting in the war right now who already have PTSD and are without limps most of them probably didn't wanted to be part of this if they really knew what they were doing. Everybody likes to think they're on the good side.

Basically commander or whatever rank he is complaining about these two drunk soldiers and bringing alcoholics at war and that they’re already dead in his eyes and whoever wants to hurt his family he will kill them (for saying the truth probably).

Source: I’m half Ukrainian I know both languages more or less but I’m not 100% proficient. I may miss a detail or two but the mainline is that

He's raising his K/D

By having a less suspicious name

Very well said. Title is not enough to say what the whole article says to your heart.

While the west's best suffer is money, Ukraine biggest price to join NATO and democracy again is Ukrainian lives, wounded citizens, destroyed cities. Who has paid bigger price than Ukraine has.

It is insulting to say "We are not amazon". There are more classy ways if you want to reject something because maybe your budget has reached is peak. But this response to Zelensky was really not classy. And the response was just on point.