You mean, against Russians, people that form a quarter of its own population?

For what it’s worth, Latvian policymakers are so russophobic even the EU makes sure to calm them down once in a while.

And as for international policy against Russia, Latvia is generally following EU guidelines, so they don’t hit Russia the state in any special way.

Latvians themselves, in the meanwhile, have split opinions - nationalists, moderates and russophiles are all present, with varying shares across regions and age brackets.

Upd.: I must assume all those downvotes are a knee-jerk. To clarify: I stand against actions of Russia the state, but what Latvian government does to Russians the people, its own citizens, is nothing short of tragedic, with a country on course to become an ethnostate.

This has led European Union to force Latvia to recognize Russians as an ethnic minority and grant them basic access to culture, language etc. that was stripped in an attempt to erase Russian identity within the country’s borders. For the first time in years, Russian kids born in Latvia can have access to extracurricular classes on Russian language and culture; previously they were completely confined to Latvian ones, with any alternatives strictly prohibited.

~you too :3~

Upvoted!

One situation I’ve repeatedly faced that could be solved by fully public voting is having those debates when someone puts a single downvote on my opponent’s comments.

Silly, yes, but it may look like I am downvoting a person to aggravate. I am not, it’s not me! :D

What did you expect of a FEDiverse

A Russian word play around Roskomnadzor, i.e. The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, an agency responsible, among other things, for censoring media and blocking access to Internet resources, as well as proceeding with criminal allegations on illegal content.

Pozor (Позор) means “shame”.

This is basically the very instance most piracy communities are hosted on, so you get extra benefit of ALWAYS having access to it regardless of defederations.

Luckily, you can always move elsewhere :)

The benefit is that it isn’t just another reddit but rather network of reddits

Banned on one? Get from another.

Watching this graph more often than that of Bitcoin

The most ironic part is selling communist merch

Can we stop for a minute and appreciate the fact that to this day, a queer community uses domain of freaking AFGHANISTAN? :D

That by itself is based, although yeah, registrar fees issues are real.

lemmynsfw.com

Don’t thank us.

Profile backup would be so cool! I’m super for it.

There will be a blocklist, then.

But fundamentally we can do very little to prevent the inflow of random instances - if only instances will implement whitelist federation, but that obviously hurts decentralization and adds a lot of headache

A small note: in 0.19 Lemmy has introduced the ability to defederate from instances on per-user base.

Now, when lemmy.world updates, you’ll be able to block Threads from your Settings.

Many instances already updated.