AHEAD ammunition, part of the Skynex, Skyrangers, etc. which Ukraine has a couple and getting more of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdwjcayPuag

I would’ve, or rather had at the time of its creation, fully expected it to shut down either way. Because that’s kinda been the trend with most new Mozilla products from before the new CEO anyway.

It’s poorly thought out because entitled cagers break the laws?

Dumbass could still be alive.

I think retaliatory downvotes happen either way if you’re in an argument. Same with report abuse, which, if it happens to a high degree, would be the moderator’s responsibility to ban the perpetrator (reports here are not anonymous like they were on Reddit).

Also, if there’s someone with an abusive mind, they can easily use another instance that shows Activity to identify downvoters. The vote is public either way for federation purposes, they’re just hidden from certain instances - at least on the user level, but they’re still there technically.

Fedia hiding the activity is one of those things that I kinda dislike, as it was an easy way to detect certain trolls.

I think you want to work on your reading comprehension. The topic is about politically problematic mbin instances, not how mbin works.

I would not risk it if you’re at risk of getting kicked out or something, especially if your host country is stricter on that type of content. Just join one of the existing instances and subscribe to whatever Lemmy communities you want to see federated with it.

I’m quite sensitive to Tankies and seen some other Lemmy instances that seem problematic but I have not noticed any mbin instances standing out in any way. But all mbin instances combined are just a few thousand users at best, so it might just be too few users to even make an impact if there was a specific Tankie instance.

Mbin is a community fork of Kbin. Even while Kbin was still a thing it was already much faster in making changes & additions than Kbin and by now Kbin & Kbin.social is basically dead.

It’s why you cannot trust polls and the likes in authoritarian states. Even outside of state manipulation of numbers, when people are afraid to actually speak their mind, then it completely invalidates any sort of results you would get from it. If I was living in Russia and some random person, be it on the street, at my door, or over the phone, would ask me my opinion on the war or Putin, you’d sure bet your ass I’d sugarcoat it in a pro Russian way, or at the very least try to avoid speaking to said person at the bare minimum.

And yes, people who said something against the regime on his channel got in trouble before. So Russia is very much aware of his channel and monitoring it, or at least have people watch it and report people they see there.

16 & 4 upvotes here on Fedia (mbin), with 0 boosts on each.

Do people seriously not know what a freaking mammoth is?!

Shit. I’m gonna turn my alarm off and get some proper sleep the next days…

5 bucks per month per active user sounds excessively expensive, no?

A simple “this story is bullshit” is all that’s needed

That’s what this is? I don’t know what else you see or how your “this story is bullshit” wouldn’t amplify it either then.

Fact checking and clarifying fake news is not amplifying it, especially when it is already this widely spread.

A favorite is like your standard upvote. A boost is like a “retweet” in the micro blogging sense but can also be used like an extra upvote for especially useful comments / posts / threads. Boosts will also appear within your profile, so you can sort of use them as a “save” function too, if you feel you want to come back to them.

The main purpose of the online feature is so that other people can invade your games to gank you. For me that’s the epitome of games to avoid.

As far as I know they aren’t able to do that, since Taurus would require German military personal on the ground in Ukraine to program them, which is not possible without a NATO or UN mandate, as per the German post war constitution. Also, Ukraine does not have a compatible launch platform for them either.