noobdoomguy8658

Has it already been confirmed or it's still a hypothesis?

Please share any material proving it if you have any, I love space.

Lemmy, too, has algorithms that determine what you see - how many upvotes a post has, how many comments, how recent, etc. The communities you subscribe to may have some high-quality, niche posts that you're very likely to miss because they're overshadowed by bigger, more active communities where posts simply gain more traction - RSS lets you circumvent that.

Catered feeds, for example.

You can create a feed that only includes Lemmy communities dedicated to a specific topic - like only those related to video games in some broad sense. Or a news-only feed.

It's much more convenient that just subscribing to everything you're interested in and then trying to filter out on our own (good luck not forgetting stuff), as you're basically on the algorithm's mercy as well.

Preposterous!

Matrix? @noobdoomguy8658:matrix.org

There's also DMs on Lemmy if you prefer, and IRC, but I'm new to the latter.

I kinda wish I could make everyone in my circles to get into Matrix and fediverse in general, maybe IRC, but that's hardly a fun time for them - just another website, app, or service to learn and use just for one lefty dork, and not for a very frequent communication, too.

Couldn't agree more. I, too, spoke with my friends, but in a very different way - I first sent one of them an invitation to come with and leave a signature for the man, giving a brief explanation of what we could achieve; I didn't make a long or comprehensive speech, and my friend agreed, as did the other one, who was in a Discord call with the first one at the time. None of these two are particularly interested in politics, I doubt I could call them left-leaning or part of the current opposition in Russia, but the sheer ease and speed with which they just agreed to come with me and sign for Nadezhdin spoke volumes to me, even more so than the Prigozhin's march.

The most beautiful thing about it is the fact that the point we got to initially wouldn't be open for another 30 minutes, and then we learned we had to go to a completely different one because it was the only one open due to all the strain on the volunteers and the entire campaign; there we learned that they were out of blanks for the regions two of us were signing for, so they asked us to print some somewhere nearby, which we did, and then signed off as planned. None of them protested, despite the fact that all three of us were already late for work that day. The only concern I heard came from the least liberal of my friends, which basically boiled down to them saying that they hope Nadezhdin, should he become the president, wouldn't become another Putin. That, too, says a lot about the Kremlin gremlin.

As to why Nadezhdin got so far... I think Maksim Katz put it best - the government is full of morons, is run by morons, and those morons seek to make other morons happy. It's been over two decades of theft, murder, deliberate destruction of trust and unity and critical thinking, extreme bureaucracy, cleansing, lies, and wiping out autonomy - of course a system like that is prone to make mistakes, isn't it? Especially when it's stressed with so much stuff already, and even more so amidst the elections the prime candidate for which is definitely not in favor as evident by his joke of an announcement to run for presidency, complete lack of his face on any material advertising the elections, and now the fact that seemingly a much larger portion of the population is actually going to attend the elections, making any tampering more difficult and risky

They're just incompetent and they get high on their own stuff, possibly truly believing that everyone is in love with Putin and everything he brings, that the opposition is just a few 18-year students making irregular donations to some irrelevant politicians. I really hope they're losing sleep and mental health more than ever now as their beliefs crumble and they get more and more irrational, increasing the potential for even more mistakes that we can take advantage of.

Either that or it's some secret anti-Putin plot from within, because everyone is tired of the old bastard at this point, regardless of their political or ideological views.

As for the people whose views aren't as humane... my answer is Realpolitik. You're right, they're not going anywhere, and that's why we must learn to work with people we don't like - so must they. We're not going to build a healthy and safe society that in turn builds a healthy and safe county, both for its citizens and the rest of the world, if we ostracise people that aren't 100% with our idea of good or fair or just: it's a yet another path to tyranny, for who gets to decide, and more importantly, most people often turn to radical, inhumane views and parties when they have no true human contact or empathy in their lives. We'll have to offer everyone a chance to become a part of a kind and supporting community, one that doesn't punish you the moment you disagree or seem different, one that embraces and teaches, one that's inviting and welcoming - that way, the radical, the violent, and the hating communities and parties and candidates and politicians will have progressively less and less to offer, losing their old populist tricks of pride and grandeur they promise to give back.

I'm glad we've met over here, my friend. I wish I knew of more people like you in my country and places to meet them easily, but that's a whole other story. Let's talk more and network, if you don't mind - I think we all need it right now.

My bad, I see now.

Still not a Slavic problem primarily, as far as I know - it's just the Russian language being kinda bad at spelling, especially when it comes to Ё. Learning German made me realize the true value of Umlauts and clear, consistent rules for using them in a given language with definite alternatives for cases when they can't be used as is, such as email addresses and other tech areas dominated by the Latin/English alphabet.

I'd make it a strict rule to never use Е instead of Ё - they're not interchangeable in any way; maybe there was a period of time when typewriters couldn't conveniently take this letter into account, but in the digital era, with its greater ease of typing, there's really no excuse in going with Е instead of Ё, ever. If that was the standard, I'm sure some relatively short time in the future the inconsistent transliteration could be much less of a problem for all the Russian-native Artyoms out there.

As for the international documents... I believe a proper standard would suffice, one that would define proper and correct translations for names. There probably is one (or one thousand) already, but it doesn't seem like it's that definitive after all.

Seconding this as another Russia, another singee for Nadezhdin.

The most important aspect here is let people act and get out of rut of feeling powerless and alone, which is exactly what's been cultivated by Putin and his regime for decades. A lot of people never do anything because they've learned to see it as pointless, both through propaganda and through other commenters' apathy, which is often propaganda, too.

First there was Duntsova with her signatures and candidature, then many protested in Bashkortostan, then mostly self-organised to find a cat that was thrown into the cold out of a train by the conductor/stewardess, now Nadezhdin with his signatures amidst the coldest time of the year, traditionally long Russian winter holidays and rush to get everything done - people are seizing any opportunity to show themselves and others that not everyone is a warmongering blood-thirsty maniac, and that's a very good thing.

Some have been very skeptical about Nadezhdin and the elections, but even if all that proves to be worthless and fruitless in the end, there's still a much greater benefit in trying to do something, confirming that there's many like-minded people around - and it's much, much more helpful than any apathetic take saying that the Kremlin will deal with Nadezhdin in one way or another; sometimes it feels like people want Putin gone, but hush and shame any attempts to do so, except for the unrealistically idealistic ones like a brutal revolution.

The latter isn't always the case, but the rest is very accurate. I try to use my skills in English to offer people outside Russia some insights, both to help them understand this place a little more and help myself cope with everything a little better, but your post is precise and concise, which is best for this kind of case; I just can't stop talking and end up writing confusing and complicated paragraphs because ei get emotional and try to put too many things into a single comment.

So good job and thank you!

Diacritics: the bread and butter of the Slavic languages.

My source of credibility is that I've studied linguistics and translation/interpreting and got a BA on the matter, so I'm not talking out of my ass entirely.

Get ready for some dorky read.

Artyom is pretty much the expected translation, regardless of the original spelling: like with Sapkowski becoming Сапковский in Russian, which may not be what the original pronunciation or spelling intended, but that's fine, because it's intended to be used in a different language.

If you want to follow the spelling example, then every language is fucked because King George is very far from the Russian equivalent of Король Георг, let alone the fact that individual vowels and consonants and then their combinations are all, in fact, different sounds between languages. None of it means a translation isn't accurate or right - it's about ideas and legibility, comprehension achieved with the means of a target language first and foremost, no matter the limitations or differences of the source language.

Back to Artyom, regardless of the spelling I Russian, either Артём or Артем, you pronounce it the same, so it makes most sense to spell it as Artyom in English.

@x4740N@lemmy.world said languages should translate words phonetically, but that's far from practical or comprehensive in general - but it has applications in proper names, and even then there are exceptions to handle stylistic or purely linguistic aspects.

And none of that is strictly a solely Slavic problem. It's not even a problem, actually.

Very much this.

The suffix at the end of that last name is also causing some trouble:

• In Ukrainian, it's Зеленський (note the "ь", a silent letter supposed to soften the consonant before itself)
• In Russian, it's Зеленский (no "ь", the "н" is not soft)
• In Polish, it's Zełenski (no "й" or anything similar, resulting in a different pronunciation again)

Now compare it to the last name of a Polish author: Сапковський (Ukrainian), Сапковский (Russian), Sapkowski (Polish).

Ukrainians, Russians, and Poles all have examples of last names like these, but the rules of our languages dictate that we handle them differently, even in terms of spelling and pronunciation; for people not speaking a Slavic language naturally, it understandably is a nightmare, as neither spelling is objectively the right one in terms of linguistics.

For now, it's probably best to either go with one of the following:

• Zelensky or Zelenski, akin to Polish equivalent spelling of similar last names
• Zelenskyy, as seems to be the more or less official or judicial spelling of this Ukrainian last name

As messy as it seems, I believe it's going to stay the same. Romanization of the Russian language is already an equally messy phenomenon despite multiple efforts to standardize the process, yet it only resulted in several ways of tackling the difficult cases, which is of very little help; Ukrainian seems to be an even more complicated case for romanization as it has some features that would either require intricate rules to create accurate spellings, or make greater use of diacritics.