Not as hard as for people from Ukraine, so, nothing to worry about.

Putin and his government has been killing and putting their opponents to prison since 2000-s. At the same time they were telling older people, that if they chose anyone from opposition, Russia will return to its darkest ages.

While doing this, they closed or took under their control all indepent media and made it illegal to say something, that doesn't fit their narrative.

And now people wondering why Russians aren't protesting or fighting that regime.

Went here to write this.

Source: I've left Russia, where I've been born, after war started. Left there my whole family and all friends.

Wanna see those tankies, who say it's all for good under some posts like that.

Yeah, don't use SD for something, that continuously writes data on it. One power outage and it will die.

Source: lost 2 sds on my OPi 3 lts.

Look at mastodon (or try it), after Twitter user exile it grows and shines like an independent big social network. Same will happen to lemmy.

And if original developers will shut down their instances, there will still be a lot of others. And if devs abandon their code, it's opensource, so anybody can continue supporting it. And if not, ActivityPub is a protocol, that's used to exchange data, and new software will be written, like kbin is a working alternative to lemmy.

So, the only thing to worry about is a userbase, we must form it to attract new creative people here.

We'll live, we'll see. Meta is showing its interest in mastodon, so we have a reason to worry. But I think, lemmy will change according to the situation, when situation will be present, not before it.

They already blocked it for unregistered users. There's only that annoying overlay, that forces you to install their app.

No ads and the fact, that it is open source and community driven.

I like GitHub stats for jerboa and lemmy-ui.

First I created account there and then landed on my current instance, because lemmy.ml's admin views looks sketchy for me. Been living in ex-ussr for all my life I just cant accept all that communists and marxists and the fact that lemmy.ml has /c/Communism on it.

I know that's silly but that's why I'm not there anymore.

Also don't understand people, who chose drinking as their hobby, compete in how many and what drinks they drank, how bad it was in the morning and what weird stuff they did under influence.

I like alcohol beverages, but not a stupid culture being built around drinking.

Drinking is not fun and loud parties too. Just understood, that I haven't had fun there most if the times.