No, I think it is rather an example of the mindset that only large conglomerates can be at the top of the value chain and given that most of the current eastern European suppliers work for such I guess that is a easy mistake to make from that perspective.

So why bring the example of Samsung then?

Yes, but it isn’t a Discord replacement, but rather a WhatsApp replacement.

https://movim.eu/ is xmpp based and might be more suitable as a Discord replacement, but to be honest it isn’t quite there yet if you are looking mainly for a voice chat app.

Uhm, Samsung is probably the worst example the author could have picked. These Chaebols are basically mafia organisations that have a severe negative impact on South Korea’s democracy and larger society.

In general this idea of needing “national champions” is extremely misguided and only leads to undemocractic structures having an outsized influence on the government.

Last time I tried they also worked mostly with Akkoma (which is the nicer software).

They always had an vastly outsized defense industry compared to their size, so this isn’t exactly news.

Me opens link expecting vibe-coded slop… and indeed it seems to be vibe-coded slop 🤷

I would like one that doesn’t list any shitty tech-bro startups that only differentiate themselves from US ones by being headquartered in Europe. But I guess that is too much to ask, as nearly all these lists are dominated by those.

The effect of that is AFAIK relatively minor.

My semi well researched impression is that the main federated server load comes from votes done on other servers by external users (that vastly outnumber local ones). Basically the way ActivityPub works is that every vote is as computionally expensive as a full comment. But Lemmy also somewhat abuses a system that was originally only meant for a “like” on a micro-blog post for its vote feature.

This has been discussed for years, and Piefed introduced a way to batch multiple votes together so that it is only one database operation at the expense that individual votes don’t get updated in real-time. This however only works between Piefed instances as Lemmy continues to be incompatible with this IMHO good idea to lower the server load federation causes.

I am was talking about toeing the Kremlin propaganda line after the Russian attack in Ukraine 🤷

But you clearly live in an alternative reality of propaganda that even after a short initial phase of cognitive dissonance upon the shock that you were completely wrong on the Russian attack, you just doubled down on licking the boot of imperialist Russia even harder.

Right, because I stated historically accurate facts 🤡 Just like I did here. Lemmy.ml users are such a joke.

No, I had one and deleted it after you and the owners of lemmy.ml made it very clear that they were toeing the Kremlin propaganda line and directly contradicted what they said merely weeks before.

And what you say is blatantly false. There was some speculation about how the war in Ukraine might end despite Russia clearly having the upper hand militarily in the long run. This speculation was entirely justified at the time. You are clearly unable to differentiate between speculation on possible scenarios and predictions about likely outcomes, and also the quote in German supports exactly that. But we have already established multiple times that your reading comprehension is very limited and you continue to misinterpret and distort what others have said if it fits your agenda.

Looks like we have another expert in whataboutism here 🤡

Complete bullshit, and the quoted text also doesn’t support your claim (not sure if you used a bad translator).

Please provide some proof that I ever said so. Because I didn’t 🤷

So far all my predictions about the war in Ukraine were correct, so I don’t even know what you are talking about.

So the the official conviction by Soviet authorities and later execution of him was all made up? /s

Which btw, only happened after Stalin’s death…

Because you can look into the future and were not completely wrong when you proudly proclaimed that Russia will never attack Ukraine here on Lemmy just days before they did so? 🤡

Most of the victims of Epstein were also around 18 years old.

Almost like you are coming to the defense of convicted rapists like Beria.

That’s rich being accused of whataboutism by you 😅