It's not surprising, but IMO the shutdown is still worthwhile. It's shaking people loose to start looking for alternatives, and giving those alternatives opportunity to shake themselves down too. We're not quite ready for a Digg-style implosion yet. It may come more gradually this time.
This is the number one source of reassurance I give people who object that Lemmy is "overrun by tankies." That was just the earliest niche community that happened to jump ship in this particular direction. Now, even at this early stage, Lemmy is being overrun by everyone else.
They're /r/unexpected, so if they were to state one or the other I don't know if that could be trusted anyway.
Moderation will be important for porn communities, so perhaps just start out with some kind of "meta" community where you can discuss stuff about the instance itself. May be better than throwing down a bunch of communities and ending up "stuck" having to deal with them.
Even better is to post the text of paywalled articles so people without access can still read them.
The overall "pattern of the war" is that Russia took a bunch of Ukrainian territory early on, and then has spent the past year having its meat ground and losing big chunks of occupied territory back to the Ukrainians again. Bakhmut has been notable because it was an exception to this overall pattern. We may now be seeing the pattern reassert itself there, though.
Interesting. I'm actually not reacting as negatively as most of the other folks here seem to be, I feel like it's a "the more the merrier" situation. Much like how I'm not mad that Gmail is using the email protocol, for example, it's good that it can interact with all other email programs and servers out there.
Even if Twitter and Reddit don't completely crash like Digg did, making them "just one among several" will be a good thing in the long run. They'll actually have competition for a change.
If the technology was to become widespread it would have to do better than "silly digital ski goggles" anyway. I wear glasses, I wouldn't mind slightly bulkier glasses if in exchange I can get a heads-up display telling me what the name of that person who's greeting me that I should totally know the name of but have forgotten right now.
Indeed. As much as the changes that have been made and will be made to Reddit over the years are appalling, it's not the fault of the workers in the trenches. They get their directions from on high.
Be mindlessly propagandistic "communist." The countries they fawn over aren't even particularly communist, they're just authoritarian. Russia in particular is run by capitalist oligarchs.
It's just tiresome and pointless engaging with them.
I think we'll see a temporary "return to normalcy" after the protest finishes and most subs come back online. But come June 30 and the end of third-party apps, we'll see a bunch of users come back to Lemmy/Kbin again.
In a way, this seems like the best way of driving things. The protest has raised awareness and got a ton of development work going, and then there's going to be a respite giving instances time to prepare themselves for the second surge.