Time to collect my paycheck I guess ๐
(Also: When the fuck did I ever mention Taiwan? I said "Before becoming a Wumao, learn some Chinese". Bro is mad ๐)
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I'm Ukrainian American and got blocked from the Ukraine sub. These people are just as bad as reddit. No difference
Your instance is home to lots of tankies. I would personally consider jumping ship.
Is that what it is lol? I didn't even know.
I don't think it's a lot. Most are sane but they are trying to infiltrate with extra accounts.
That could be the case. However, your instance admins don't seem to want to do much modding. I've seen lots of questionable comments from there including hate speech and all sorts of bizarre takes. It might all one person for all I know but it looks the same from the outside. I haven't blocked your instance as of yet but if the spam increases I might have to unfortunately.
Ok
Erm. Well for 1 I don't know how to do that, but 2 I don't want to.
A lot of places that are "full of tankies" actually have more people not like that in them. However, the moderation is another story. So while you may not get that feeling from the general user base, that is because it is often the mods people are talking about. Unless it's like hexbear, which were brigading and shit.
Apparently there's a decently sized community on the instance I'm on. It's got a different vibe than most similar reddit communities though
Wait a minute, so who's moderating the Ukrainian sub then? Another Ukrainian-American, a Ukrainian, or a foreigner?
Good question.
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mlUkraine comm commonly has the type shit my coworker fought in a civil war to combat. it's russian separatist bullshit. thesopuli(i think that's the right instance) is the respectworthy one. there was a comm hosted in Kyiv but i hear there was an issue with the domain name registrar that has yet to be resolved so that one's basically dead.Interesting, thanks for the information. It appears that the sopuli instance is a Finn group, and doesn't appear to be Ukrainian at first glance.