The moment of the drone explosion in Moscow was broadcast during the Russian rowing championship.

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The moment of the drone explosion in Moscow was broadcast during the Russian rowing championship.

@DI_Ukraine, meanwhile, has warned Moscow residents about an increase in drone attacks. The air defense of the Russian capital is unable to protect its citizens in the ongoing war, a representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Andrii Yusov, told the Kyiv Post.

"The concept of security is becoming increasingly distant from the citizens of Moscow," he added.

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Don't worry, folks! The tankies from hexbear will be here soon to explain why this is all fake.

With Lemmygrad hot on their heels!

I've stopped recommending Lemmy to friends because of those two instances

You can always recommend they join, but block those two instances. Every place on the internet has trolls to ignore.

You can't block instances, or at least if you can, I haven't figured out how to.

Kbin, Sync, Thunder, etc. all have various levels of blocking (e.g. keywords, user, community, instance, etc.)

You can on kbin and I thought some of the lemmy apps were adding that feature.

Seriously, they sometimes make me regret making an account here. It's tiring.

Block those places dude don't act like they're permanent

Yeah going to. They’re already brigading me with downvotes because they can’t handle opposition lol.

Feels like half my experience on Lemmy is blocking "communities" from those instances. Hexbear, Lemmygrad, explodingheads... constant propaganda, low quality political and even fully racist memes with tons of upvotes polluting my feed. It's not enjoyable and I'm starting to wonder if it's worth it even for me, let alone my less tech savvy friends.

I get federation, decentralized social media, etc. I love the idea. Would be amazing to socialize without a corporation looking over my shoulder. But seriously those instances and their propaganda have pretty much killed my excitement about it.

... you only have to set up those preferences once, friend. Your argument is like saying you don't want to eat anymore because picking up food with your hand is tiresome. 😅

I can set my preferences once or a million times and Lemmy will still be ruined by propaganda

Try making a post in your instance asking your admins to defederate from those places, if they refuse for some reason, pack your bags to a different instance that will. That's the beauty of federation ^^

Did y'all not defederate from them? My instance did.

We definitely need to defederate some instances. They try to downvote every comment and post of mine with bot accounts. Coincidentally, during Russian daytime. 🤔

But then they whine and cry about freedom of speech! Even though the whole point of owning an instance is to be able to decide who to federated/not federate with 🙄

I never understood why some communists would defend a fascist regime. Fascism is their literal arch enemy.

> implying tankies are communists and not rando cultists

2 more...

the moment they see that Putin can't keep them safe, it's over for him

Upvoted, but people did not turn agains Hitler even during the massive massive bombing raids on major during cities.

The upvote is for hope though.

it's a good point, and it's not helpful to be too optimistic and so on.. but, i really don't think we can compare the two, especially in terms of their respective abilities to inspire their fellow countrymen.. Russia is considerably less secure that way..

there weren't a lot of mercenary armies riding around challenging the Wehrmacht..

I hope that’s the case and that they don’t actually feel anger for the attack and more committed to the war in Ukraine.

all of the zealots are riding around with Prigozhin or dead.. the smart ones got out.. all that's left are cowards.. they won't protect Putin.. this is the problem with the way he does things..

the thing we learned here int he US in the 40s and 50s was that nobody is ever really loyal to a gangster.. and that's all he's ever been..

They put in their best rowing times that day

All they had to do was put their asses in the water. When that explosion went off the air forced out of their simultaneously puckering assholes would've propelled them to at LEAST 88 MPH and safely back to the future.