Russia’s been running a massive propaganda campaign in Europe and the US for more than a decade. Including slandering the LGBT and trying to associate them with illegal activities, promoting Christian orthodoxy over atheism, depicting Europe as degenerate and failing, demonizing immigrants and trying to frame them as criminals etc.

The people who move to Russia thinking they are upgrading their lives are few according to this article, but I’m still surprised by how these people completely ignored how authoritarian and destitute that country is. Germans moving to Russia thinking it’s the better place to be is a huge propaganda victory for the latter.

Some anti-cheat software can be run through Steam e.g. Easy anti-cheat.

What alternatives would you suggest?

wtf is a socmed

Afaik these add-ons only count the dislikes from other people who use the add-on. It’s a half-measure and doesn’t reveal real dislike count.

Guess I’m a Catholic now

Turns out voting for conservatives has consequences.

No thanks

Tubular was right, then. You do follow around and harass people.

Spiritually Russian guy tells us not to move to the US. Yeah, I’ll pass.

Thanks for driving people away from Lemmy

Best response by far. Very human-like.

I am in the EU and after 2027 freedom of speech in big websites will be pretty much over. What measures can i take to protect myself from government censorship other than using decentralized websites like Lemmy?