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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Only real ones will remember

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

They didn't reduce the entire war to that, and Syrian history says Israel is heavily involved in Syrian affairs and for many years bombs syria at least once a month, sometimes several times week.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

He just met with Iranian FM in Syria. If he did leave to Russia, he came back after.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not world news. It's an internal matter of the US.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Kurdistan will unfortunately get obliterated by Turkey now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

They have the entire city now, which never previously happened at the peak of the war

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Russia only occupies the small region of its naval base. Iran does not really occupy any part, although they do seem to have great influence on the government.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Contrary to whats being thrown around, Russia's support hasnt shrank much. The major change was Hezbollah, which had to retreat from its positions in Syria to support the front against israel.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Syrian here. It was never exactly wrapped up. The government had strong momentum supported by its allies, but upon reaching the last stretch of rebel stronghold, they mysteriously stopped back around 2017-ish. What seems to have happened is Russia making a deal with Turkey and agreeing to stop.

Those remaining rebels have now launched a new offensive against the samw government army, but it is weaker than ever and severely lacking of ally support.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately this is just PR speak. While the Lebanese resistance was very successful in repelling an occupation of Lebanon, israel has succeeded in forcing them to abandon the support front for Gaza. I do not blame them at all, but it makes the victory in Lebanon bittersweet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I wish we had a nice tagging system (and I don't think they should be hashtags) that was also in common use.

I want to be able to search any post related a certain topic, and sometimes, these may not always be in that topic's community, because topics can overlap. For example, I might want to read posts about Ukraine war, but those might be in world news, US news, or combat footage communities. Could be a community about Ukraine in general, or Ukraine war specifically.

I also may not want to get it from a single Ukraine community. Maybe by finding posts with the "Ukraine war" tag, I'll see several communities and join the one I want. But there needs to be a way to group them somehow.

Such a tag system may be useful for combined topics. For example, I may want to look for posts about music software. They might not be common in the music community, or software communities. But I could filter by both tags and find what I want.

 

I suppose this may make sense in the case of something like Mastodon. But something as versatile and customizable as lemmy, which allows for the existence of separate topic-based communities, makes topic-based instances of lemmy not necessary.

Instead of making a new instance for a certain topic, it is usually a much better approach to just create a new community on my current lemmy instance. At least from my perspective as a user.

I find the only exception to this is censorship and moderation. If I, for any reason am unhappy with an instance's moderation and censorship, then that is the only potential reason I can see to change and make my own.

What does everyone else think of this?

 
 

I don't really have a serious threat model. But if I host a VPS, I might as well do it with a privacy respecting company if the cost difference isn't massive.

Preferably something under $15 per month. I'm not necessarily looking for the cheapest, but the best general value per dollar ideally.

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