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[–] 39 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Me staring at the white Y at the end like viral photo of a guy looking intense with his forehead and neck veins bulging

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    [–] 36 points 13 hours ago

    SLOP image.

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  • [–] 88 points 16 hours ago (13 children)
  • [–] 40 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    To be fair yandex servers are pretty huge, so it might not have been bots, but a bunch of other infrastructure that could have been used for election interference. Big if, I know, and not as direct as bots, but survivorship bias tells nothing happening might be indicative too.

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  • [–] 25 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

    OP is a prolific Russian shill. This is a shitpost.

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  • [–] 11 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

    Hol up. Why would Russians work so hard to make Russians look weak?

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  • [–] 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    And also because even if it were true, this happened far too close to the election to move the needle significantly.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 hours ago

    This may or may not be true. Everything is choked up with too much crap to really tell.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    fyi, the news story which this meme is premised on turned out to be a hoax.

    none of the claims that there was a measurable drop in inauthentic social media activity as a result of the strikes on yandex datacenters held up when i tried to verify them. one of the graphs supposedly demonstrating it was obviously AI-generated and had dates in the future, while another was a cloudflare graph showing a drop in bot traffic but the bot there was solely yandex's search engine web crawler traffic.

    it's remarkable how many people continue to believe it.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 hours ago

    Facebook mom tier propaganda meme, swap Zelenskyy for a minion and it's perfect. Ain't no way people actually believe this crap.

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  • [–] 12 points 13 hours ago (18 children)
  • [–] 9 points 12 hours ago* (15 children)

    I mean there are many ways to transliterate Cyrillic to Latin letters (depending, among other things, on which Latin-script language you are writing in); but the man's name is Зеленський, where you will notice that the second and fourth letter is exactly the same, so transliterating one of them "e" and the other "i" is indeed nonsensical.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago (10 children)

    For transliteration sure.. but both of the letters in question are pronounced differently.. The first е is unstressed but the second е is stressed. This would make the first sound more like an i, especially for Russians, which would make more sense if they had written Zilensky based on how it sounds when spoken

    Either way, call it a little typo

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (9 children)

    By any chance, are you versed in Ukrainian-Russian differences? I was wondering if anyone could chime in as to whether Ukrainian has the misfeature of unstressed vowels turning into other ones, like 'eh'-'ee', 'oh'-'ah' and such. Of course, Eastern Ukrainians tend to speak Russian anyway, but I don't quite think it affects the language itself that much.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago (8 children)

    I don't know if I'd call it a misfeature, English does it a lot

    It's been forever since I learned any Ukrainian but Ukrainian is a lot more "strict" with their vowel sounds than Russian

    о stays an о, unlike Russian where it can become an "ah"

    As far as I am aware with Ukrainian it's just е raised towards и (and back again depending on where stress is placed), hence the original comment. Trips up everyone learning Ukrainian

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago (7 children)

    о stays an о, unlike Russian where it can become an “ah”

    Thanks, that's what I was curious about.

    English does it a lot

    I mean, in English 'dog', 'dag' and 'doc' are all completely different words.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    That's different, it's one letter having different sounds in different words. The words I wrote could be homonyms in Russian.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago (1 child)

    photograph -> photography

    democrat -> democracy

    The o vowel collapses

    "to" "and" "for" collapse unless stressed

    It's the core reason why spelling words in English is so hard

    You can't hear whether it's separate or seperate, much like Ukrainian with е and и

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago* (2 children)

    Because English doesn't have any letters that are pronounced in different ways depending on the context. Neither does Cyrillic. That's a unique thing to the French.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Huh? Not sure what parts, of any, of this strange statement are meant to be ironic; but of course English has letters that are pronounced in different ways depending on context, for example "c" sometimes makes a k sound, sometimes s sound.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago

    And he's not even wearing a suit and tie! Based.

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  • [–] 3 points 12 hours ago

    They pour billions to maipulate your opinion and vote that doesn't matter in the least bit.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago

    Blue magas are actually the dumbest people. Also what happened to the no politics for this community? Guess that does not apply if the mods want politics pushed.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago

    I thought all of the elections so far have been the most secure in history

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago (12 children)

    Naaah. He got some of them for sure, but there’s still a fuck ton of those douchebags right here on lemmy. If only admins had the balls to do something about it.

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  • [–] 6 points 15 hours ago (9 children)

    Well, main developer of Lemmy once posted something like this:

    Who doesn’t support Russia - doesn’t understand geopolitics.

    So yeah, I switched to PieFed once figured out that its devs don’t want me dead from a russian missile for the crime of existing.

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  • [–] 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (8 children)

    switched to PieFed

    Switched from commies that never had a chance of achieving anything politically, to the dev who had a user blocklist baked into the code.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago

    Well it called doing something. Good or bad depend on where you stand, but it's something nonetheless, not to mention it exists because of the tankie dev. So people that don't want to even encounter a tankie in the wild will feels like it's a good move, while people who like to play compromise with supremacist will think it's a bad thing, the rest probably doesn't care.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago (4 children)

    Except it does not though. Making a feature opt-in is literally the most friendly and permissive action that can be taken in such matters.

    Btw Lemmy v1.0 gives Lemmy.ml sole veto power in suggesting community names to new instance installations. But it too is not so much hard-coded as opt-out.

    Both platforms are rather opinionated, but the amount of disinformation targeted against PieFed is significantly higher.

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  • [–] 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

    Except it does not though.

    It was taken out by other devs after people made a stink about it. Which is a regular occurrence with Piefed, people having to fix what the main dev does. His entire development process is like someone's who's still in school.

    disinformation targeted against PieFed

    If only its source code were open and visible to everyone, so anyone could check if this 'disinformation' is true.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    As far as I heard, all of the "hard-coded" accusations were disproven. Wrapping a statement inside an IF() block that is not executed unless the instance admin specifically requests it is not the same as hard-coding.

    Nor is Lemmy.ml's holding of the veto power for community suggestions quite hard-coded, although tbh its being opt-out is a bit closer to such than opt-in.

    Feel free to send a link to educate me. Every link I've previously read ended up being disproven. In return, please feel free to actually examine the sourcecode yourself - Rimu has previously sent links to the exact lines involved to make the process quicker.

    PieFed is opinionated software though, in other ways, that much is fair. As too is Lemmy, which offers numerous rights to admins and a bit less to mods but far, far less to mere users - like no modmail or other ability to ask a mod what happened; and while an instance admin can defederate from an instance, individual users have no ability to do so (e.g. users from that instance can still send you DMs, and troll you in communities not on their home instance). Fortunately both are FLOSS and we can look at the entirety of their respective sourcecode packages whenever we like, even make a fork if we would rather, as PyLova has done.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    That was a different dev. You're thinking of the one who made his Lemmy frontend block users.

    Piefeds moderation features are open to modify.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

    No, I'm talking about Piefed. It also had a user blocklist. Until other devs noticed and went "what the fuck", which is the standard development procedure in that project.

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  • [–] -1 points 14 hours ago

    Now THATS Americas president.

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