They are completely different servers with no relation to each other. Lemmy is primarily developed by @nutomic@lemmy.ml and @dessalines@lemmy.ml neither of whom are Canadian.

You really gotta learn how Lemmy actually works. It’s not a centralized website like reddit, it’s a federated platform with many different instances. Since lemmy.ca is an instance set up specifically for Canada, it’s no surprise that it mostly has people from Canada on it. That’s in no way representative of Lemmy as a whole.

Yes, Lemmy has grown significantly in the past two years. Hexbear has also become federated with other Lemmy instances since, which alone would completely change the demographics.

I love how you jump straight to assuming other people are dumber than you. Yet, as I’ve already explained, I start with asking people I know about their experiences first. I also don’t buy things until I actually find I have need for them.

would be neat, maybe somebody will make a server to mirror it to loops :)

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You just have to start using non western platforms like Xiao Hong Shu and reading media from outside the west.

All the time. When I actually need something, then I’ll go do a bit of research on different products based on feedback from friends, and what people online say, then use that to inform what I buy. I can’t think of any product I bought because it was advertised to me.

If you’re in the west then it’s worse now because capitalism is reaching the stages of systemic collapse. For people living in countries like China or Vietnam the picture is quite different. They see their lives improving each and every day. They have clean cities, great infrastructure, and a rate of technological progress we can only dream of. Those of us living in the west are living through a similar collapse to the one that happened in USSR in the 90s, but the west is only 13% of the world population.

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I mean here’s what top British military people are saying https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-defeat-david-richards-world-of-trouble-podcast-b2844349.html

Meanwhile, you don’t seem to understand how wars of attrition work. The goal of the Russian army is to destroy the fighting capacity of the AFU. They’re not aiming for territorial gains, they’re destroying the army, and that necessarily takes time. When the army collapses, they’re going to be able to take whatever territory they want and dictate their terms. Go read up on how things went in WW2, the front was largely static for most of the war, and then the Red Army marched to Berlin in a matter of months.

The same source that’s been telling you that Ukraine is winning the war. But hey if you still believe that, what else is there to tell you.

They have no large scale manufacturing at this point because Russia can hit anywhere in Ukraine with impunity, and does large strikes on daily basis now. On top of that, Ukrainian energy grid is on its last legs now. https://archive.ph/vRYOO

If you actually believe these stories of Ukraine working on their own missiles then you’re a highly credulous individual. The article you linked is from August, and we’ve seen zero evidence for any of what it says being true. I guess some people still can’t learn to spot bullshit after having been lied to by western media for the past three years.

What’s happening is that, unlike the Europeans, the US is trying to find an off ramp because they understand that they lost their proxy war.

wait till you find out that you need things like factories and electricity to produce missiles

In any stable society, leaders represent the interests of a constituency that backs them and keeps them in power.

You seem to be missing the fundamental definition. Capitalism is a system where a class of owners exploits those who must sell their labor. A capitalist is a factory owner or a landlord who profits solely from their ownership, not their work. In a socialist state, a worker’s labor has direct social value. They are building a society for all, not generating passive income for a separate class of owners.

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