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  • Tuuktuuk@nord.pubtoMeta (slrpnk.net)@slrpnk.net•slrpnk.net instance mirrors for more resilience?English
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    8 hours ago

    Doesn’t the Forumverse already do this by default?

    Lemm.ee was closed a long time ago, but all of its communities still kind of exist, because every instance that had federated with its communities, have full copies of those communities. For example:

    Those three are the same community, but also not. Now that lemm.ee is not around to do the federation for that community, no data gets transmitted between the three versions of that community I linked above. Just look at the number of upvotes: They are different behind each link, because there’s nothing telling lemmy.world that someone on slrpnk.net had upvoted something there. You could even add new posts in any lemm.ee communities that are not locked! Those posts would only be visible for people on your own instance, though.

    In the case of a permanently dead instance this is something of a problem, actually, because people might not understand that they are posting in a community that will never again federate.
    But, for example in the case of the downtime of slrpnk.net, people were still able to use the communities. They were able to upvote and downvote, they were able to write comments, and they were able to make new posts.

    All that content was stuck in each individual instance, so if I from nord.pub wrote a comment there, a user on lemmy.world would not see it. But, when slrpnk came back up, all instances sent all of the updates to it, and it then federated then onwards to other instances, joining all the added comments into one.

    The whole Forumverse functions through mirroring. Each instance has a full copy of any community its users have subscribed to. If the home instance of the community goes down, the copy will continue to function.

    So, to write all this in the nutshell: While slrpnk.net was down, people using other instances were still able to use its communities without even noticing the server was down! Therefore, I would argue that what you are asking for, is already taking place. It does not work very well if slrpnk.net ever goes down for good, but as long as it eventually climbs back up after disappearing for a while, this solution works very well.

    And also: If lemm.ee somehow ever comes back online, all the upvotes behind those three links will be federated to all other instances, and then any of those three links will show the same amount of upvotes.

  • Tuuktuuk@nord.pubtoWorld News@lemmy.world•In Russia, many restaurants and cafes close as consumption stalls amid major slowdownEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    I suppose at some point people might be figuring out that Putin is not the same as Russia and that they are better off with a different set of institutions.

    I have a feeling they won’t figure that out. I was talking with a person here in Finland just a few months ago, and they said “Putin is not a good president, but all the other options we have are even worse”.

    …which is an absolutely bonkers thing to say. Who on Earth would be worse for the Russia than Putin is? Nobody else would have elected to continue this war once it was clear that Kremlin had fucked up. Even if they would have been bad, there’s almost no way they could have been worse than what Putin is doing now.

    But still, that’s what the otherwise completely adequate-seeming Russian told me. The inability to see how bad Putin really is, is extremely deep in that people. The thought of Putin as the father figure of the whole country is so ingrained in the Russians’ heads that it will be only the generation after the next one that will be clear of it. And then the Russia can maybe start developing into a third-word country at least. And then maybe even back to being a second-world country.

  • Tuuktuuk@nord.pubtoWorld News@lemmy.world•In Russia, many restaurants and cafes close as consumption stalls amid major slowdownEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    The past for years experts have been talking about this going to happen around 2025 or at latest 2026. Because it has been inevitable, it has made sense factoring that into the strategies.

    Many reporters have written about it in a way that has made it look different, but already in late 2022, experts who actually know the subject were talking about mid-to-late 2025 as the limit for the economy of the Russia. They did it get wrong by about half a year, but overall, I’d say the prediction was very accurate.

    What was assumed that since the impending economical crash of the Russia was visible already in 2022, the Russia would have drawn the conclusions and left Ukraine. And therefore, by all logic, the economical crash of the Russia should have ended the war already in 2022 or 2023. But instead, the Russia decided to go for a suicide instead, because that’s what its people decided they want.