Please confine all news pertaining to Russia-Ukraine war to this thread exclusively. Any links shared outside of this thread will be subject to removal.
I strongly disagree with the decision to centralize all ukraine war news in a megathread.
That’s not how information is consumed on a medium like Lemmy. What you’re doing makes the topic invisible for the vast majority of users.
I think it should be a daily thread, not a single megathread.
is there enough activity for that?
Maybe weekly then until it picks up.
I just realized that this is an active thread, I thought the feed hadn’t updated since June 25th, as many other community feeds are intermittent or have multi day lags. Maybe have a daily thread or something to indicate aliveness?
I totally agree with you. This is a very inefficient way to share information, blending comments with postings.
The solution is to have the option to filter dominant topics the same way /r/worldnews does. We should do this in addition to having a megathread, again just like /r/worldnews.
Too many things happening to make a new post for every single event.
Dude this is over two weeks old already. The date in the title makes it look like it was a daily thread for that one day. You’re effectively hiding news from a large fraction of subscribers with this policy.
Yeah the megathread being so old is an issue. I meant a megathread being daily would make sense.
Ah, I just realised, I mistook you for someone else. I guess because of the vowel, I thought you’re @Ruud who runs this lemmy instance.
That’s why I wrote as if you’re the one making the decision - sorry.
Yessssss. The mega thread returns!! Now I can delete Reddit! ❤️
It’s a pretty dead one but okay.
It’s a pretty dead one but okay.
I just noticed. Thanks Doctor Dick Grabber.
Ukraine claims ‘explosive devices’ planted on roof of Zaporizhzhia nuclear facility:
Ukraine war: Russia accused of planting explosives at nuclear plant, children injured in strike:
Looks like nafo has moved onto Mastodon guys!
Pro-Ukrainian talk has been hampered on Twitter, so its time to just spread NAFO-like talk to Mastodon. There’s no more benefit to using Twitter for this.
The US will provide cluster munitions to Ukraine as part of a new military aid package: AP sources
Is Russia purging Wagner Group troops in Africa?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/vladimir-putin/russia-purging-wagner-group-troops-africa-rcna93183
Wagner chief Prigozhin returns to Russia, fate unclear (video):
The whole sage with this guy has just been strange. He’s supposed to be exiled but can just return and say “I want my seized guns and money back”.
What even the fuck is going on? Now they just let him walk into russia being cheered and all… what a shitshow really
Wagner boss Prigozhin is in Russia, Belarus ruler Lukashenko says:
I like how Prigozhin could just waltz in after the getting a pass for staging a coup. It shows how Putin has gone weak.
Ukraine advances continue in the Bakhmut axis.
Russia strikes Pervomaiske with Iskander missile, injuring more than 40 – Prosecutor’s Office
Russian construction firms are reportedly being told to send their workers to fight in Ukraine or face losing lucrative contracts from the city of Moscow.
Lukashenko shares some more details about the day of Prigozhin’s mutiny.
He reveals there were no defense lines in Russia up until 200 km from Moscow (some regions are more equal than others?) and carefully chooses words to present Putin as a strong leader, while pointing out it was Lukashenko who did all the negotiating.
Hi all … kind of a meta non-news question.
I’ve been thinking about getting a person who writes great Russia-Ukraine threads over on Mastodon to post their threads here. I’ve got a general post about the possibility here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1528973.
I’ve also pestered @[email protected] via DM.
Just wondering what your thoughts are on whether there’d be a good fit here.
The main point is to make it as easy as possible for them by allowing them to post from mastodon still. So the ideal would be that they would create new posts here and create a thread within that post, to which people would be free to comment on of course.
Except that doesn’t seem to fit within the rules here, especially rule
[1.1] Submissions must be links to news articles.
.Thing is, this person’s threads are full of citations of or links to Telegram sources from within Russia or the region, basically a thread of primary sources that the author is compiling into a digestible narrative. It might really be something people here would appreciate, especially as I discovered them through links provided in a megathread on here.
Sooo … I’m wondering what you think and whether there might be some scope to alter the rules and allow for this sort of thing … the idea would be that it’s something like a journalist live reporting.
Russian military death toll in Ukraine rises to 224,630:
garbage source