Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)
Your instance is really just a point of entry. In the end people will probably follow the communities which are the largest and in their language, regardless of the instances hosting it. And your instance is probably the one hosting the largest communities anyway.
edit: oops, my bad, lemmy.ml had federated with lemmygrad, which is filled with russian shills, so yeah, we have to think about it, and maybe pick a different instance or start a brand new one. I don’t want to spend more time explaining why Ukraine doesn’t belong to Russia. Let them lose the war and figure it out by themselves.
You should not focus too much on the political aspect. So far there are a lot of russians around, but we will outnumber them, so it’s not a priority.Those Russians, they sure do seem to be everywhere! Tell me, even if there were a lot of Russians – which I don’t think is actually true – what would your problem be with that?
If we take as an axiom, as many in the west regularly do, that the Russian government is fundamentally undemocratic and disconnected from the will of its people, then what worry should we have about Russians, who themselves thereby probably aren’t interested in advancing the interests of their government? Or do you believe that the accounts you don’t agree with are paid agents on this tiny website? That would be very unreasonable of me to assume as a belief you hold, but I am struggling to infer another one. Could you help me to understand?
would like some russians to play dota with
That’s the spirit! I don’t think there are many Russians here, but if there are any, I hope you get some people to queue with!
I agree with you, the earth is flat. Now please leave me alone.
You think that it’s equivalent to saying the Earth is flat to wonder about the logic of complaining about “Russians” on this website? I was pretty careful about my inferences, though I invited you to show me my error and still would be interested to see where my mistake was!