Musk has been positioning himself at the far right for a while now. I don't think anyone is actually surprised anymore.
None of your business.
For Ukraine, it's total war for survival, whereas for Russia, it's not. Forcing Russia into total war is well within the realms of possibilities, if it drags on for too long, and even with reduced backup, Ukraine has the manpower to do so. Russia, on the other hand, has to switch mode and forcefully conscript ethnic Russians from Moscow or St.Petersburg to maintain the war, which has historically led to uprisings, whereas Ukraine already has ever reason to fight to the last.
It's impossible to make long-term predictions either way. Needless to say, I'm rooting for Ukraine.
The war isn't over when Putin says so. It's over when Ukraine decides it's over.
Xi has focussed his efforts mostly in Beijing. The Shanghai clique is no more, and standards are declining accordingly.
Please don't assume everyone commenting here only has a very blurry view from afar.
Xi already failed to build a legacy with his zero COVID policy, and things are rapidly getting worse economically. Fighting a war is traditionally a good way to distract the people, especially if it's Taiwan. I doubt it being unpopular or people dying phases him much. He's a dictator very much like Mao, who couldn't care less about millions of dead Chinese people. For them, it's all about power, not about his people. The CCP isn't interested in bettering their living conditions at all.
Gonna check out Connect, thank you :)
On sh.itjust.works, shit just works.
As for apps, I'm using Liftoff, which works well, but hasn't seen an update for a while, and I don't know how active the dev is. I'd rather not use Jerboa, which has been created by tankies, or any of the ad-infested ones, like Boost, because I think it's despicable to try and profit off of user-generated content on a platform that's meant to be free (could have stayed on Reddit if I wanted that).
I don't think Lemmy will reach or overtake Reddit. That's a good thing in my opinion, because massive platforms come with massive moderation problems that aren't so easy to tackle for decentralised networks. We've seen that when someone posted kiddie porn and several servers went down to scrub the filth from their systems.
If anything, Lemmy already has a pretty high amount of troll communities, thankfully mostly contained within their own servers, which enables separation through defederation (speaking of defederation, I'd love to have an option to block servers on the user level).
Because you see, blyat.
Sure, but I'd rather Google spy on me to market my data for targeted ads than a country that runs literal concentration camps and is just across the Taiwan strait, basically a stone's throw from where I live.
Medvedev is like Trump, pulling all kinds of stuff out of his arse all day, and it's all smelly.