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  • Russia doesn’t need Ukraine on its own, they need Ukraine to get access Poland, Romania and Moldova.

    They already switched into war time production, and if they manage to get Ukraine they only need a year or two to replenish all military equipment.

    People really underestimate Russia and that’s the worst thing you can do to get caught pants down. If Russia senses there’s a chance to succeed they will move on.

    Another thing the West seems to be ignoring is that they think the war is just what is happening in Ukraine, when the majority of their operation is disinformation, subversion, and destabilization.

    The popularity of far right politicians (who for some reason are friendly toward Kremlin) or BRExit shows how effective it is.







  • With ISP what is really need is Local-loop unbundling but extending to ISPs.

    Those that are old enough to use DSL in early 2000, might remember there was a lot of ISPs to chose from. The reason for it was that due to Title II telco companies were required to lease lines to their competitors. When cable started to be popular, ISPs lobbied politicians to categorize it under Title I which removed that requirement. We got Internet back to be categorized as Title II, but this specific rule was excluded and this is what is necessary to bring the competition.



  • The difference is different admins, different policy (for example one lemmy could let anyone in, another, like beehaw asks to write why they should let you in, and that you will obey their rules).

    There are also things like some settings, for example beehaw disables downvotes, they also don’t federate with lemmy servers that notoriously break their policies.

    So best bet would be to choose server which policy fits you the best.

    Also some people might want to choose the biggest and most open server. That could be good but because the server is open to everyone it might struggle fighting abuse and also go down because of high load. Such server is lemmy.world right now.

    BTW: this might be useful https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances