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  • Fair enough. But I also don’t agree with the assessment that it would bring more users in. There are already a ton of instances to pick from. While democratizing an instance seems interesting, if I were constantly in the minority for instance changes, it would be better for me to save my money and simply find an instance that aligns with my preferences. You’d also need a pretty significant amount of paid users to be able to pay any sort of salary, plus the additional headache of sorting out payroll for people who are likely in several different countries. If you just wanted to offset server costs that would be significantly smaller in scope, but then no paid mods.

    I’m not saying don’t try it (anakin), it could maybe be pretty cool, but it seems like a long shot to me personally.




  • They still stand and the others do not in part because Russia intervened

    Russia didn’t “intervene,” they started the fight by annexing Crimea and donbas. There have been 3,400 civilian casualties in the donbas region between 2014 and 2021. There have been 35,000 confirmed Ukrainian civilian casualties between the start of the invasion and July 2024. Remind me how Russia is trying to protect people again? And if this really was just about those regions, why not take them and stop? Why is Russia trying to take kyiv?

    Also trying to whatabout about NATO is idiotic. I only referenced the Budapest memorandum. If you want to blame “NATO imperialism” for forcing Russia to invade a soverign country, then I have two questions. Why are there now two more countries in NATO than before the invasion? And do you honestly think NATO would invade a nuclear power? If so, to what end?


  • Funny how those cities still stand after 7 years of shelling. Meanwhile there are several Ukrainian cities that simply don’t exist anymore but we’ll only see you criticizing Ukraine.

    Also I love how you say “government cracked down on resistance” as if that wasn’t part of euromaidan first. They cracked down on pro EU protesters first. Then you gesture broadly at the ~30% who didn’t support joining the EU or didn’t care as if that’s some sort of justification for a Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine. Which happened in 2014. That led to the fighting in those regions that you mentioned.